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JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we be...
EUGENE H. PETERSON We just want to make sure we have the professionals and tools in place to make sure that every singl...
ADRIENNE ELROD Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER We will have some of the legacy athletes there jumping for the anniversary.
CONNIE HAGLER We have a right to life, not on it.
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STEVE NOVOSEL All you have to do is start talking about it in terms of what is happening to people in their pocket...
KAREN THURMAN Advertisers have to find another way to deliver their message. Because of the decline in traditional...
PETER SEALEY I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my in...
KENNY G The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja...
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BOB GREENLY To be or not to be that is the question.
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GARY F EVANS... As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Each day is a gift
To embrace and welcome
KAREN HACKEL We have a whole new group of people that moved into town and they're quite interested in the town. I...
DARELL WEGERT In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the ne...
DANIEL GREENBERG We have led the world in terms of the processes we have put in place.
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WANG XUN Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
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BO BURLINGHAM Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Well, I like Charlie Parker, Ella, Billie Holiday.
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WAYNE GRAY The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
THOMAS FULLER I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
EMINEM The only reason people want water rights is to have certainty to what their place in line is.
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DEYTH BANGER Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
SEBASTIAN COE Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patt...
LINDA CHAVEZ To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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SIMI GREWAL I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
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GORDON GEE People laugh at the Stones because of their age. Mick, Charlie, Ron and Keith can still play with th...
BILL HICKS People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust t...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did you know that what you really, really, really want ...you now have?
LORRIN L. LEE You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
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CHARLIE PARKER It was a bit of a switch-up, really,
CHARLIE PARKER Now's the time - Oop Bop Shbam!!
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CHARLIE PARKER Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
CHARLIE PARKER If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
CHARLIE PARKER That's what we all wanted,
CHARLIE PARKER Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
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PARKER STEVENSON I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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PARKER STEVENSON I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scr...
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PARKER PALMER Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
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ED PARKER My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
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ALAN PARKER I hope it goes through.
ALAN PARKER We're the demonstration project for the state, so everybody's looking at us.
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ALAN PARKER You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
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DOROTHY PARKER Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
JOHN PARKER I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle.
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THEODORE PARKER Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
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DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER Politics is the science of urgencies.
THEODORE PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
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A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
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CANDACE PARKER I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.
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CANDACE PARKER Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
CANDACE PARKER My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
CANDACE PARKER You want your coach's blessing.
CANDACE PARKER It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was youn...
CANDACE PARKER I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
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CANDACE PARKER I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.
CANDACE PARKER My baby is the joy in my life.
CANDACE PARKER The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich...
CANDACE PARKER For me, family has always come first.
CANDACE PARKER I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been i...
CANDACE PARKER I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, ...
CANDACE PARKER My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
CANDACE PARKER You're measured by championships no matter what.
CANDACE PARKER So you have to take the good with the bad.
CANDACE PARKER Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
CANDACE PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ...
DOROTHY PARKER Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy ciga...
ALISON PARKER Frankly, from a human rights perspective, that raises concerns,
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ALISON PARKER This would bring us in line with the rest of the world and make the US act in accordance with human-...
ALISON PARKER [Human rights advocates say that the use of juvenile life without parole, or LWOP, is by one measure...
ALISON PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...
DOROTHY PARKER There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad<...
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
THEODORE PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a...
DOROTHY PARKER Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi...
DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER