It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated... view

By: Thomas Bulfinch

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats... view

By: B. C. Forbes

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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise... view

By: Henry A. Kissinger

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But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it... view

By: Andrew Eldritch

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The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault... view

By: John P. Kennedy

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We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach... view

By: Kjell Magne Bondevik

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I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them... view

By: Juliette Binoche

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My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected... view

By: Stockwell Day

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I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot... view

By: Donnie Wahlberg

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I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow... view

By: Sophocles

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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive... view

By: Eleanora Duse

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It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water... view

By: Franklin P. Jones

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