Miles Quotes

• When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

  Joan Van Ark

  Running, Jobs, Trying

  "A Personal Conversation with Joan Van Ark". Interview with Arthur Swift, www.angelfire.com. September 2, 2003.

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• Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

  Bobby McFerrin

  People, Kind, Host

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• If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

  Ric Keller

  Beach, Florida, East

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• When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

  Norman MacCaig

  Fishing, Five, Knows

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• I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

  Horace Walpole

  Hours, Found, Theme

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• Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

  Jan Garbarek

  Moving, Jazz, Coltrane

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• Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

  J. Paul Getty

  Work, Sitting Still, Getting High

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• Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

  Alan Shepard

  Morning, Airplane, Airports

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• From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

  Peter Pace

  Judging, Soldier, Friendly

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• I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, School

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Boys, Asian

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

  Chuck Jones

  Sunshine, Light, Trying

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• The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

  Bob Hope

  Dog, Tree, Pet

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• I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

  Rip Torn

  Friends, Used, Folks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

  Billie Holiday

  Funny, Horse, Science

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• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Missing, Together

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• Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Jazz, Form

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• I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

  Sting

  Fitness, Running, Used

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• In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

  Knut Hamsun

  Men, House, Understanding

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• My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

  Robert Quine

  Listening, Stuff

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive

  Jeri Ryan

  Jobs, Husband, Nice

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• I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Fitness, Swim, Back And Forth

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• Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Time, Winning

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