Andy Summers Quotes
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
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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 always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
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We've made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before. We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide. We have done nothing to help the Christians, nothing, and we should always be ashamed for that lack of action.
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I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.
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I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
