Jose James Quotes
When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I never read the tabloids.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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The building’s beauty is a metaphor for hers Mumtaz Mahal and is thus contemplated as feminine. It is builder's feeling for the woman interred within. What else but passion, they ask, could have inspired something so perfect?
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I've had some not-great experiences with laser hair removal, probably because I haven't done what they told me.
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When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.
