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 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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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 there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.
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Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.
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“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”
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If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention to other people’s needs.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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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.
