Chuck Mangione Quotes
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.
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I get a great high from writing.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
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I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.
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I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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I like to look good. I'm well-respected, and I demand that - and I don't mind showin' off!
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We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
