Duke Ellington Quotes
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
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I'm learning every day.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.
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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.
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The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her - 'Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness...'
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My daughter came to us last night and insisted we contribute in some way to Earth Day.
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I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.
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We don't get to decide who God is.
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
