Johnny Otis Quotes
I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
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Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.
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I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.
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Cause you know my joke is that I love her (Oprah Winfrey) but she thinks she's Jesus? And when she gets a paper cut she's like 'Oh, stigmata?'. No, Oprah. Get off the cross and do your show!
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I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.
