Benjamin David Goodman (Benny Goodman) Quotes
Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort.
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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
