Pat Metheny Quotes
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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Golf is not easy.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
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I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
