Chuck Mangione Quotes
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'
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It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.
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I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.
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When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.
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I draft tweets, like, 20 times.
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Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Errantes silva in magna et sub luce malignainter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaveret tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos,quorum per ripas nebuloso lumine marcentfleti, olim regum et puerorum nomina, flores.
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Jesus is coming again within the next two years.
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I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.
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I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.
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Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
