Miles Quotes - Page 37

• My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

  Richard Branson

  Mother, Home, Independent

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• The next film I have is called Miles Ahead, which is about Miles Davis, during a five-year period in his life during which he's struggling to figure out which direction to go musically and in his life. I play a record executive who's there to try to get Miles to collaborate with one of my clients. I'm excited to see that.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Struggle, Years, Play

  Source: nerdist.com

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• Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that we are there as partners for them if they are prepared to make the necessary changes. But we should be in no doubt as to why we are in Afghanistan. We ended up there because terrorism hatched there erupted thousands of miles away in New York on Sept. 11.

  Tony Blair

  New York, Responsibility, Doubt

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To have 95% of the ingredients sourced, food and wine, within 100 miles radius, that's a dream come true for any chef.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Dream, Wine, Ingredients

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• For African American children, in particular, the odds are extremely high that they will have a parent or loved one, a relative, who has either spent time behind bars or who has acquired a criminal record and thus is part of the under-caste - the group of people who can be legally discriminated against for the rest of their lives. For many African American children, their fathers, and increasingly their mothers, are behind bars. It is very difficult for them to visit. Many people are held hundreds or even thousands of miles away from home.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person... always have been. I have to say that it's important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk - even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.

  Rita Moreno

  Couple, Issues, Important

  Source: 55plusmag.us

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• You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Tempo, Knows

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• There were years of that stuff that will never leave me. Never. When the bus turned a million miles - that's a lot of traveling. It's really cool to think about. I'm blessed to have traveled a million miles on a tour bus.

  Kenny Chesney

  Blessed, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I really like Chopin piano music. I really like Wendy Carlo's electronic music. I really like Miles Davis and John Mclaughlin jazz style. So I'm not only an old-school rocker, but I have to admit that I'm going to be listening to The Doors, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Bob Dylan many times a week.

  Gordon Raphael

  Old School, Piano, Doors

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• [My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Kings, Years

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• Every day we'd trudge up the hill - it was a three-quarter-mile walk up this steep hill to the Leach Pottery, and we would take our lunch with us and generally, I guess, make a nuisance of ourselves.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Lunch, Three, Nuisance

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I forgave Jock Semple his action on Boston race just around the time I got to Heartbreak Hill. I had 24 miles to go and you cannot run 24 miles and stay angry. That's the truth. When we go out and we're mad at our boss or mad at the world, when we run, we get it out of our system.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Running, Race, Boston

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• There's just a law to the universe. We can have the San Andreas rip tonight. You've nothing to do with that. We could have had that super hurricane, that, look what it did to South Carolina two or three hundred miles offshore! Imagine if a category 5 eye wall went right up the Chesapeake Bay. They can say "well, mankind did that." No, mother nature decides. So, will we survive? I'm sure we will.

  Matt Drudge

  Mother, Wall, Rip

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

  Jason Aldean

  Wall, Night, People

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• I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

  Kim Alexis

  Running, Florida, Nine

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• And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.

  Criss Angel

  Sleep, Night, Two

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• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  Lance Armstrong

  Portland Oregon, Weather, Path

  "Lance Armstrong In 2012: On Exercise, Diet And Why He Won't Go Into Politics". Interview with Rebecca Zamon, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 28, 2012.

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• I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

  David Attenborough

  Moving, Grandfather, Village

  "Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things will only get worse" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spring, Fall, School

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• We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

  Justin Bieber

  Movie, Trying, Stories

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• I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  London, Towns, Small Town

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• My main exercise is cardio. The treadmill is fine, but running outdoors gives me the best results. I try to log 6 to 8 miles a week. I could be in the worst mood, but when I do my cardio, I feel much, much better.

  Mary J. Blige

  Running, Exercise, Giving

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• Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

  Jan Brewer

  People, Police, Borders

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• I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

  Dave Brubeck

  Believe, Player, Records

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• I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mind, Needs, Levels

  "Sandra Bullock: 'I'm Aware That I Can Be Annoying'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 29, 2009.

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