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If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
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If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
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Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
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In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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