Jay McShann Quotes
We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.Jay McShann
Quotes to Explore
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland -
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
Nathan Myhrvold -
As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
Kara Hayward -
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Malcolm de Chazal -
I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
Lata Mangeshkar -
I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
Vincent Cassel
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett -
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
Rand Paul -
I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
Ja Rule -
I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.
J. J. Watt -
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
Nancy Sinatra -
The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.
Randy Neugebauer -
I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.
Caitlin Moran -
Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
Damon Galgut -
It was built with posterity in mind; we the viewers are part of its concept.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.
Irene Dunne -
Government, management and unions...have now...jointly embarked for the first time in Britain, on the path of working out together how to create and share the nation's wealth for the benefit of all the people. It is an offer to employers and unions to share fully with the Government the benefits and the obligations involved in running the national economy.
Edward Heath
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Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and state, is endemic. The exercise of religious faith in the public square is not prohibited; only the federal imposition of a particular faith. Hardly anyone any longer knows the difference.
F. LaGard Smith -
Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
Edwin Armstrong -
Space does for comics what time does for film!
Scott McCloud -
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.
Fred Wilson -
We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.
Jay McShann