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.Ahmad Jamal
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
Adam Clarke -
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
I'm the blackest villain of all time.
Ian McDiarmid -
Running back was always my favorite position.
Barry Sanders -
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.
Earl Warren -
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.
Narendra Modi
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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.
Gary Hamel -
Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
Edoardo Ponti -
Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
Oliver Tambo -
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.
Walter Pater -
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.
Idris Elba -
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.
Damien Chazelle
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
Gary Larson -
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.
Yogi Berra -
I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
Dan Gable -
I guess music is very global.
Yuna -
The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
Rachel Corrie -
One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness -
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
Naomie Harris -
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.
Ahmad Jamal