John Scofield Quotes

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

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• 'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Game
  • Way
  • Me

• If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • School
  • Education
  • Better

• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Belief
  • Strength

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Dream
  • Boring
  • Ever

• Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • People
  • Book
  • King

• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Childhood
  • Early

• Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Picture

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Important
  • Political
  • Law

• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Effort
  • Find
  • Too Much

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
  • Night
  • Fire

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Together
  • Song

• People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Long
  • Opinion

• I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Men
  • Book
  • Science

• My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Country
  • Father
  • Grandparents

• I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.

  

  Big Sean
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Way

• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

  

  John Scofield
  • Inspiration
  • Jazz
  • Innovators