Chuck Mangione Quotes
There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
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When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
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You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.
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Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.
