Jay McShann Quotes
They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
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We are what we believe we are.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.
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In my opinion it was a tie vote in Singapore. We need an outcome.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.
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They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.
