Billy Higgins Quotes
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.
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We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.
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Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.
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Weight loss surgery isn't going to make you lose weight; it's a tool to help you lose weight. Half of it is the surgery, and half of it is you eating what you're supposed to eat and exercising.
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I am very aware that I'm one of the luckiest people who ever lived.
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Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
