Quotes of Count Basie

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I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

- Count Basie

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“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

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- A. J. McLean

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

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“ Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ God's plans for you are always good and purposeful. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ I marinate my life in gratitude, creativity and love. What about you? ”

- Francis Shenstone

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

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- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

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“ Live your life, no matter what that life is. ”

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“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ As a woman, you are always empowering others and helping people out of their situations. The time has come, and the time is now, for you to take charge of your own journey. It doesn’t matter how young or how old you are. It is time for you to freefall into giving yourself a chance at love, and the first person you should fall in love with is yourself. ”

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