John Scofield Quotes

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

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• I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.

  

  Damian Marley
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• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
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• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
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• At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
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• Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
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• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

  

  Iain Glen
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• I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

  

  Calvin Harris
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• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

  

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• People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

  

  Ma Jun
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• It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

  

  Dan Pallotta
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• I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

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• Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

  

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• A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.

  

  Ari Graynor
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• If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

  

  Count Basie
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• I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

  

  Dannii Minogue
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• Life space was defined as the totality of facts which determine the behavior (B) of an individual (or group/organization) at a certain moment. The life space (L) represents the totality of possible events. The life space includes the person (P) and the environment (E). B = f(L) = f(P.E)

  

  Kurt Lewin
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• The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

  

  John Scofield
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