Big Sean (Sean Michael Leonard Anderson) Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
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To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
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Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
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We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.
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I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.
