Buddy DeFranco Quotes

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

Buddy DeFranco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 17, 1923 - December 24, 2014

Topics

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A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.

Jill Scott

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I can't give into hate. It's too great a burden to bear. I have to stick with love.

Meghan McCain

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I'm going to vote for Obama. I'm going for the change.

John McEnroe

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Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

Ameen Rihani

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What started happening really quickly after 9/11 and the construction of this 'War on Terror' business is that I saw all kinds of parallels between the way that was being constructed and the way that prisons had been constructed since the early 1980s.

Trevor Paglen

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You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Robert Duvall

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This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

Russel Honore

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I have to make sure I get the right amount of protein and iron, and I take supplements for that. I think people would be surprised if they saw my diet, though; it's very normal.

Lizzie Armitstead

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Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Brian Greene

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He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Publilius Syrus

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I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

Rick Astley

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I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

Ringo Starr

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