John Lurie Quotes

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

John Lurie

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Problem
  • Nothing
  • Against

• Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Wall
  • Trump
  • Down

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Rights

• The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Home
  • Sorry

• I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Peace

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Know
  • Few

• It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Me
  • View

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Good
  • Goal
  • Moon

• You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.

  

  John Knoll

• There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Only
  • Still

• I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco

• We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.

  

  Geoffrey Boycott
  • Up

• So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

  

  John Lurie
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe