Bela Fleck Quotes
There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
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I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.
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The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.
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Cities must be fun.
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Almost everything is small and not only that, almost everything is rare.
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There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.
