Les Baxter Quotes
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I've been training quite hard.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
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I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!
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It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.
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Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.
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No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.
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We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.
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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.
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I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.
