Jan Garbarek Quotes

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

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• There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Daily
  • Safe

• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • School
  • True

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Ignorant

• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Way
  • Always
  • Behind

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• I want to have a long career.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Want
  • Career

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Children
  • Family
  • Jerusalem

• When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.

  

  Benjamin Hoff
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Simple

• People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.

  

  Jeanne Phillips
  • People
  • Angry

• I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

  

  David Cone
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • World
  • Success
  • Sports

• Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

  

  Jan Garbarek
  • World
  • Music