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.
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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.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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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.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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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.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.
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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.
