Max Roach Quotes

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

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• When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Love
  • You
  • Learn

• The stratosphere is a hostile place.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Place
  • Hostile
  • Stratosphere

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Successful

• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Need

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Bad
  • Strong
  • Identity

• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Learn
  • Paint

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

  

  Larry Wall
  • World
  • Universe
  • Place

• I'm very happy alone.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Very

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Up
  • Age
  • Getting

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

  

  Alana Blanchard
  • People
  • Haters

• I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • Life

• People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

  

  Andrea Arnold
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• If I'm doing my hair myself, I just wash it and let it naturally dry. I'm actually quite good at doing hair; if I wear it up I usually do it myself.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hair

• A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

  

  Marc Cherry
  • Life
  • Women
  • Complaining

• Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

  

  Max Roach
  • Experience