When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
#quotes #illinois-jacquet #music

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface ~Christian Slater
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
#quotes #norman-vincent-peale #failure #success #attitude #optimism

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
#quotes #john-d-rockefeller #friendship #business

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
#quotes #junior-seau #sports #hockey

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. ~Prabal Gurung
#quotes #prabal-gurung #clothing

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
#quotes #barry-sheene #race #competition

He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
#quotes #melina-marchetta #men #common-sense #speaking

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees. ~John Mackey
#quotes #john-mackey #business #competition

Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #money

He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
#quotes #simon-cowell #snow-patrol #band #music

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
#quotes #tim-pawlenty #barack-obama #politics #leadership #united-states

If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #buddhism

I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
#quotes #margaret-fuller #heart #wish

I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
#quotes #amy-sedaris #time

God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
#quotes #charles-dickens #prayer

Love gives life within. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
#quotes #cole-porter #writing

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
#quotes #antoine-de-saint-exupéry #the-little-prince #heart #seeing

I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
#quotes #mark-driscoll #maturity #medicine

There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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