Kamasi Washington Quotes
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.
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I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.
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The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.
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What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
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If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.
