Oscar Peterson Quotes
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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A family is something that I definitely want, but I'm 26, so I have plenty of time, and I try not to kind of confuse the two because, if I'm lucky enough, I want to make having a baby a personal decision rather than a career-defined one.
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Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.
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If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
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When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
