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
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. ~Bryan Adams
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains. ~Libba Bray
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. ~Bob Dylan
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~Babyface
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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