John Zorn Quotes

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• You think about taking audiences on a journey.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Think
  • You
  • Journey

• I never left doo wop.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Left

• My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Father
  • Education
  • Poor

• It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Future
  • Political
  • Moral

• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Know

• I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Everything
  • Go
  • Doctor

• The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Money
  • Nice
  • First

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Go
  • Physics
  • Colonies

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Dad
  • End

• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Running
  • Universe

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Together
  • Yoga

• Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?

  

  AJ McLean
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Love Is

• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• There were times when other people said I was on the short list, but as time passed and nothing happened, I didn’t expect the recognition would come because people who were familiar with my work were slowly dying off.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

  

  Charlotte McKinney
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.

  

  John Zorn
  • Work