Bela Fleck Quotes
My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.
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My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
