Benjamin David Goodman (Benny Goodman) Quotes
After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
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A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.
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Conservation of energy also protects our environment.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
