Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (Jelly Roll Morton) Quotes
Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don't even think about after the fact! It's like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!
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However closely we may associate thought with the physical machinery of the brain, the connection is dropped as irrelevant as soon as we consider the fundamental property of thought-that it may be correct or incorrect. ...that involves recognising a domain of the other type of law-laws which ought to be kept, but may be broken.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
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Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
