Charlie Haden Quotes

I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.

Charlie Haden

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Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

Jerzy Kosinski

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I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

John Wooden

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Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.

Stephen Pagliuca

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In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.

Tracy Kidder

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Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.

Monique Roffey

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Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Joyce Meyer

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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

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My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

Jonathan Brandis

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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

Douglas Coupland

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It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

Demetri Martin

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It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.

David Weber

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As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.

Chow Yun-Fat

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