Count Basie Quotes
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
Quotes to Explore
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I will keep working hard!
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A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
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I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
