#ready

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations. ↗

— Benny Green

#been #duo #first #first time #had

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation. ↗

— David Baker

#always #assimilation #ever #got #i

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.' ↗

— Dalai Lama

#always #contentment #desire #discontent #everything

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier. ↗

— Brian Lamb

#easier #getting #goal #grew #i

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#any #care #country #doctor #down

Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing. ↗

— Ali Landry

#apart #been #career #days #doing

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#by the time #clearly #fixed #i #time

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#already #because #comedy #feelings #get

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. ↗

— John Lindsay

#believe #business #cannot #cope #country