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Dexter Gordon Quotes

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1923 - April 25, 1990

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Yourself You Know Kind Understand

Instead of trying crazy diets now, I just live by a few easy rules: I try to stay away from white flour as much as I can - I go for grains and brown rice instead, and I pick lean meats, like chicken or turkey, over red meat most of the time.

Jenna Ushkowitz

Live Time Red Crazy Trying Rules

There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.

Money Place Middle Your Than Put

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

Myself Woman Waiting Look Feeling

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Good People Long You Places Means

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

Stanley Hauerwas

Mother Son God Me Story She

I was hoping David Haye would beat the fight out of me in the second fight.

Fight Me Out Beat Would Second

If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody can destroy that. Nobody can destroy your imagination; nobody can destroy your love.

Love Heart Imagination Song Deep

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

Childhood People Me Control Feet

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.

Matching Kid Bow Trousers Wearing

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

Future Think Vote Debt Without

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

Louise Slaughter

Women Poor Own Cannot Low-Income

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Passion Politics Religion End True

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