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It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
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Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
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Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, - you might as well live.
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Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: ''Check Enclosed.''
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There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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