Toots Thielemans Quotes

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

Toots Thielemans

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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Jodi Picoult

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Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

Jerry Cantrell

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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

Andrea Bocelli

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Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

Anna Quindlen

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My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

Anita Diament

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I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.

Simon Cowell

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I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world.

Shirley Temple

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mary Kay Ash

LiveMusicPeopleDieTryNever

I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

DMX

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The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.

Christopher Lee

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I bobbed and weaved through my career. And in hindsight, though I'd like to say it was a plan - it was not - the bobbing and the weaving gave me a broad base from which to become an executive who could say, 'OK, I've done this, and I've done this, and I've done this.' And nobody could BS me, because I'd done most of it.

Bonnie Hammer

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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Bono

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