Ahmad Jamal Quotes
I have a thousand melodies in my head, but I don't write them all down. I write down the jewels. So when I have a jewel I go into the studio. Jewels are hard to find--you have to dig.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
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When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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I guess music is very global.
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Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
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The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
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The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.
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Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.
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I have a thousand melodies in my head, but I don't write them all down. I write down the jewels. So when I have a jewel I go into the studio. Jewels are hard to find--you have to dig.
