Charlie Haden Quotes

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

Charlie Haden

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Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

Joey McIntyre

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Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

John Muir

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As a storyteller, you have to have something to say. You have to look at the world, think about it in relationship to yourself, and say, 'I think this is a pattern,' or 'I think this is the way fatherhood works,' or 'I think this is the way first love feels.' The danger in that is, that's when you open yourself up to real critique.

Jeff Nichols

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People ought to be slapped up side of the head, not always get what they expect. That's why sometimes the bad guy gets away.

John Sandford

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Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

John Shadegg

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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

Amy Bloom

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I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

Ron Howard

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Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.

Mike Pompeo

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I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

Mo Ibrahim

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I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.

Jonathan Franklin

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When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

Chris Rock

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As an actor, I am careless with the way I look on screen.

Anushka Sharma

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