"I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born."
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"A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line."
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"Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand."
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"There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence."
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"God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created."
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"Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities."
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"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
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"The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line."
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"Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must."
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"Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done."
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"Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written."
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"My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic."
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"You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line."
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"But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair."
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"You gotta be hungry for it. You’ve got to put everything you got on it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one in line. That’s how leaders are born."
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"There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at."
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"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."
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"The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon."
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"People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line."
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"Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist."
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