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It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had.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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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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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.
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I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.
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If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.
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I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.
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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.
