Art Blakey Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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Our investment style has been given a name - focus investing - which implies ten holdings, not one hundred or four hundred. The idea that it is hard to find good investments, so concentrate in a few, seems to me to be an obvious idea. But 98% of the investment world does not think this way. It's been good for us.
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When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].
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I want to be able to be looked back on and know that he was one of the greats in the game.
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What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.
