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It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had.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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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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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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Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.
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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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Time heals all things.
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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.
