Antonio Carlos Jobim Quotes
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
Kat Graham -
We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood -
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
Dan Fogelberg -
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
Orlando Bloom -
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
Gavin Newsom -
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
Imelda Marcos -
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
Natan Sharansky -
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
Paige Craig -
The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
Bat for Lashes
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Daddy Yankee -
Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
Zoe Saldana -
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland -
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Karl Popper -
If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
Karen DeCrow
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Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.
Madeleine de Souvre -
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What Mathematicians Chiefly consider in Motion is the Mode of Lation or Manner of bearing, and the Quantity of the motive Force. ...But because the Quantity of motive Force cannot be known without Time, we must say something concerning its Nature.
Isaac Barrow -
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.
Faramir -
The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
Plato -
It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.
Antonio Carlos Jobim