Bela Fleck Quotes
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
Ian Mckellen -
I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
Harold Pinter -
I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
Sally Kellerman -
I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
Zoe Saldana -
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker -
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
Anand Giridharadas -
Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
Picabo Street -
When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
Alan Cumming -
The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
Irwin Edman -
My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.
Joanne Rowling
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The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.
Robert Pozen -
I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
Robert Frost -
Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.
Norman Vincent Peale -
I don't think the Americans by and large putted very well, ... and we're only 2 down.
Cristie Kerr -
When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.
Yu Chui Yee -
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
George Bernard Shaw
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I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.
Michael Jackson -
It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.
Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones