Duke Ellington Quotes
Roaming through the jungle of 'oohs' and 'ahs,' searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.Duke Ellington
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
Wanda Sykes -
I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
Wally Schirra -
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
A. R. Rahman -
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
Mads Mikkelsen -
My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
J. Cole
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
Sam Riley -
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
Damon Galgut -
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
Nathan Fillion -
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen -
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
Kangana Ranaut -
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Vincent Canby
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
Ram Charan -
When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
Mac DeMarco -
I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
Kate Moss -
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
Pankaj Mishra -
We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu
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Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
Jack Black -
I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.
Gary Condit -
I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
Barry McGuigan -
Roaming through the jungle of 'oohs' and 'ahs,' searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
Duke Ellington