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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. -- Rita Coolidge
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. -- Ovid
Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room. -- Audra McDonald
I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies. -- Doug Liman
I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution. -- Wesley Snipes
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald. -- James Rollins
We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated! -- Peter Hook
Jerkery knows no financial pedigree. -- Neil Cavuto
Languages are the pedigree of nations. -- Samuel Johnson
Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end. -- Jon Bon Jovi
I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree. -- Dana Burnet
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. -- Seneca the Younger
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. -- George Bernard Shaw
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. -- Samuel Johnson
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. -- Emily Dickinson
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. -- Seneca the Younger
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? -- Juvenal
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. -- Millard Fuller
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make. -- Robin McGraw
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. -- Samuel Johnson
They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none. -- Simon Brotherton
You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God! -- Boyd K. Packer
I'm not into having a pedigree dog. -- Agnes Obel
Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree. -- Michael Douglas
Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree. -- Ezra Koenig
I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no. -- Kate Winslet
Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related. -- Steven Pinker
Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them. -- Pastor Maldonado
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. -- Melvin Maddocks
The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree. -- Shawn Amos
Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed. -- Hannah Storm
It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree. -- Joseph J. Ellis
Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder. -- Sophia Amoruso
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight. -- Shereen El Feki
George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an American every day, ordinary everyman, and as a result of that, played up his fumbling speech because it signified that he was a good guy. That is deeply and profoundly anti-intellectual. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind. -- Louis MacNeice
It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man. -- Gracia Martore
Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!' -- Randy Jackson
The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience. -- Evander Holyfield
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. -- Josh Billings
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. -- Philip Sidney
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy." -- Emily Dickinson
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. -- Charles Darwin
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree. -- Josh Billings
We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. -- Horace
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree. -- Shackerley Marmion
Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy! -- William Gurnall
The pedigree's pretty high. For people who are really scary movie fans, this is nirvana. If you're in the mood to get scared, just watch this every week. It'll creep you out. -- John Landis
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care. -- Charles Darwin

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