Lester Bowie Quotes
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
Dalai Lama
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
Damien Rice
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
Rafael Nadal
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
Samuel Alito
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Ian Anderson
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
Halle Berry
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
Sadie Jones
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
Karen Elson
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett Marden
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
Barbara Park
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
Harlan Coben
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
Namie Amuro
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Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
Vikram Seth
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In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
N. K. Jemisin
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
Quentin Tarantino
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When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.
Idina Menzel
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As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.
Adam Grant
