Christian Scott Quotes

Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.

Christian Scott

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• Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

  

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• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
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  • Nothing
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• The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
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• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
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• When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Moment
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• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
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• Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

  

  F. E. Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Place

• The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Death
  • Body
  • Spirit

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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  • Book
  • Author

• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Fun
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  • Black

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
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• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
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  • Like
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• I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
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• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

  Venus Williams
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  • Confidence
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• I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Up
  • Control
  • Confidence

• I say every slur on the planet - racial, homosexual, everything to do with every ethnic group on the planet - and guess what? I will never apologize for that because I know why I do it, and it is to make a valid point about ignorance in this society.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
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• If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

  

  Dolores Huerta
  • People
  • Moon
  • Sky

• I didn't bear down. It would have been nice to sweep those guys but it was a bad day. It's the first time this has happened in a while.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Bad Day
  • Sweep

• Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
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  • Country
  • Power

• Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.

  

  Christian Scott
  • People
  • Great
  • Music