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.
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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.
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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.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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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.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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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.
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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.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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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.
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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.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
