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  • Miles Davis: American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
  • Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
  • When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
  • Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.
  • If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
  • One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
  • You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
  • Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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  • Miles Davis A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
    Miles Davis
    American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926 - 1991)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Bennett Cerf A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Richard Bach Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • John Wesley Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Billy Gibbons Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Miles Davis Do not fear mistakes - there are none.
    Miles Davis
    American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926 - 1991)
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  • Miles Davis Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
    Miles Davis
    American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926 - 1991)
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  • Ben Miles Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
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  • Ben Miles English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Bill Parcells God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Jean Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Ian McEwan He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Butch Trucks I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Coville I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bruce Dern I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Bill Medley I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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