Lionel Hampton Quotes
I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.
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My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
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I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
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I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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It depends on what your goals are, your career goals, and what the organization values. Salaries do increase with levels of education. ... There's certainly value in terms of networking with other people in your programs.
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In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
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French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.
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I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.
