Pat Metheny Quotes
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
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You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.
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I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
