Artie Shaw Quotes
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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All defensive responses to criticism are natural. (It is natural to think of our own perspective before someone else’s.)
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I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.
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When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.
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You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.
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I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.
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It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.