Bela Fleck Quotes
They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
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They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.
