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.

  

  Warren Spector
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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
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• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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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.

  

  Adam Davidson
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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.

  

  Carl Safina
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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.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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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.

  

  Walter Hill
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• Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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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.

  

  Aaron Paul
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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.

  

  Ian Hacking
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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.

  

  Cameron Mathison
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• I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.

  

  Said Nursi
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• Every difference in men's concepts should be regarded as reflecting an objective contradiction. Objective contradictions are reflected in subjective thinking, and this process constitutes the contradictory movement of concepts, pushes forward the development of thought, and ceaselessly solves problems in man's thinking.

  

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• Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.

  

  David Deida
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• I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.

  

  Sandra Bullock
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• I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

  

  Dolly Parton
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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.

  

  Kamasi Washington
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking