Dizzy Gillespie Quotes

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

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• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Liberal

• People trash talk me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Talk

• I'm a pretty big news junkie.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Pretty
  • News
  • Big

• Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Way
  • Perspective
  • Situation

• I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Books

• It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • True
  • Community

• Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Laws
  • Follow

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• Der Irrthum verhält sich gegen das Wahre wie der Schlaf gegen das Wachen. Ich habe bemerkt, daß man aus dem Irren sich wie erquickt wieder zu dem Wahren hinwende.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I absolutely don't nurture any grudge against those calling me overrated. Well, they are merely conforming what I've been asserting for years now. Yes, I have been exalted to a pedestal much higher than I merit, which has both embarrassed and elated me.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• I didn't become one.. .As long as I can remember I've always been one.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Long
  • Remember

• 19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

  

  Alan Perlis

• Someone once asked me what my working timetable was like and when was the last time I went on a holiday. I said about 20 years back. I don’t work anymore, because I get paid to do what I like most. So it’s like a paid holiday.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Holiday

• If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified...

  

  Cotton Mather
  • God
  • May
  • Justice

• For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Music
  • Fashion

• With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Interesting

• E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

  

  Alan Cooper

• I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Up
  • Government
  • Branch

• Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie

• I don't enjoy songwriting.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Songwriting

• I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

  

  Dizzy Gillespie