"Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens."
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"Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing."
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"Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound."
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"The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch."
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"Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply."
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"Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something."
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"The doorway to success swings outward not inward."
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"It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight."
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"We can go up or we can do down. I think generally the world is going on an upward swing. We're in a part of a cycle where people are discovering more. The communications are better. We're getting more into the subtle electricities that control the universe."
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"Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!"
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"My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper."
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"There wasn't room to swing a cat there."
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"At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on."
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"The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging."
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"Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing."
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"When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one."
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"If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate."
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"Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing."
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"The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart."
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"If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I."
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