"Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor"

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Coleman Hawkins

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.”

Source : Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”
“Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.”
“I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.”
“I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.”
“I would hope I would inspire kids everywhere to know that you can do anything you put your mind to.”
“If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.”
“What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.”
“Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.”

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