Oscar Peterson Quotes
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.Oscar Peterson
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
Damien Hirst -
High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
Carlo Rubbia -
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
Aaron Douglas -
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown -
Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
Brown Campbell -
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady Gregory -
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
Oded Fehr -
The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
Zig Ziglar -
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
Salman Rushdie -
Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
Oliver Stone -
I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
Danica McKellar
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
H. Rap Brown -
What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
K. Flay -
It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
Gary Carr -
Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
Vash Young -
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales -
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Edmund White
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Video games have always been a part of my life.
Jenova Chen -
If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
Carol Bartz -
True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.
Albert Chmielowski -
According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.
Kurt Eichenwald -
They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer.
Chester Brown -
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
Oscar Peterson