Oscar Peterson Quotes
I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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I don't believe in ghosts.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
