Count Basie Quotes
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
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Everything isn't always going to be peaches and cream. If it is, then it's fake.
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I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
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I won coach of the year at the ESPYs, but I didn't go to ESPYs. That's not me. I don't want the attention.
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I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.
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Keep on listening & tapping your feet.
