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It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had.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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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I work hard to reach out to a lot of different people.
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If we invest in logistic centers, improve on infrastructure and create a facilitative environment, we can easily turn Dar es Salaam into another Dubai of its kind.
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You can't let concerns stop you; they drive you and they motivate you.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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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.
