Jerry Leiber Quotes
The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I love cooking and baking.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think, 'Okay, he's carrying himself as a black man, and that's how a black man should carry himself.'
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I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
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Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.
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The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.
