Bela Fleck Quotes
I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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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.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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I gained the weight on purpose for 'Little Nicky,' and it was one of those cases where I'd done a few roles where I looked the same way, and I wanted to be the roommate because I thought that was the funniest part for me.
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I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.
