Ahmad Jamal Quotes
You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I'd been living in the tunnel for about three months before the idea came up about making the film and really became good friends with the people.
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A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
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You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
