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Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

Become Born Ear Early
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The only purpose of power is to serve with the courage of one’s conviction that all people in the world have rights that must be respected.

Only purpose Serve Courage Conviction
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Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Barren Skepticism Tainted Yourself
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Young people need to be taught financial management. My mother taught me to live within my means and never depend on debt.
Young people Financial management Live Means
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every moment with love, grace, integrity, and gratitude

Happiness Traveled Consumed Spiritual experience
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The question we each have to settle is not what we’d do if we had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what we will do with the things we have right now…because we each hold a unique gift for the world.

Question Means Time Influence
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There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Conquer Himself Little Man
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My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.

Building Child Contrary Going
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I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

Many Message Music Opera
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If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

Another Cannot Confuse Me
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The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Against Better Fight Myself
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In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Also Any Art Command
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There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

Amount Only Time Want
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I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Albums Anything Little Me
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Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

About Beads Closed Complicated
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I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.
Anything Being Create I Can
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With all my imperfections on my head,
Anchor Imperfections Hauled Stream
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A well man at sea has little sympathy with one who is seasick; he is too apt to be conscious of a comparison favorable to his own manhood.

Sympathy Comparison Conscious Favourable
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I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

About Casting Creative Different
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It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

Actor Agree Become Critics
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Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

Created Destroyed Direction Effect
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Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth

Denying Development Enhancement Freedom
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Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Always Dangers Deals Fascination
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When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

100Years About Expose Film
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I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Amazing Been Has Been Hope
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Cannot Deal Human Human Mind
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Doubt Greatly Increased Machinery
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If we are unable to tap into the talent that is locked within us… We will not be able to deal with many of the issues that the world is facing.

Unable Talent Within us Issues
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Always have good relationships with people. It doesn’t mean you have to be best friends with everyone but it means whenever you engage with people you are positive and it’s meaningful. That’s how I managed to climb the corporate ladder fast.

Always have Good relationship Best friends
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Difference Hours Fiction Leaves
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Fiction Fear Demands Whether
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Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

Always Been Being Born
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If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

Achieve Daring Destiny Engaging
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The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

Cooperative Coping Existence Goes
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Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.

Affirm Being Condemned Every
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Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

Afraid Dependence Existence Far
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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

A Good Man Always Back Been
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I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

Along Boy Guitar Her
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You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Able Audience Doing Feel
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Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Marriage Turning Chopsticks
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Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

Attention Detail Dishes Elegant
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For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

Available Clean Consider Ever
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Marriage Woman Keen Right
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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

Illusion Photo Camera Eye
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Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Composition Expression Life Offers you
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft
Color Obtains Stem Witchcraft
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Drawing Making Expressive gesture Permanence
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I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Wished Assert Reasoned Independent feeling
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time

Effort Distortion Courage Essential
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

Vision Creative operation Effort
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