Artie Shaw Quotes
The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
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Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
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I want to take it really far in Spanish; even non-Spanish speakers listen to my music across the world. Even though they don't know what I'm saying, they really feel it. We want to take it to another level and keep building our name. We want to take it really far just in Spanish.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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I'm a really lucky guy, I have a good wardrobe of suits and things, and I have a wife that gives me a direction if I'm doing something wrong. I live a great life and I do what I love, which is wonderful.
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Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.
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The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
