Jon Batiste Quotes
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
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Obviously I wouldn't be able to do it without the support of so many people.
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We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage.
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When we moved to Europe when I was a teenager, I really did not want to go. I was happy in my school, with my friends, but looking back on it, it was the best experience I've ever had. We traveled every weekend. I experienced incredible new cultures, museums, cities, and it really opened up my eyes.
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I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
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With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
