Illinois Jacquet Quotes
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
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The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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And you know, ... it is pretty much a rallying cry for everything we do. I mean, we may turn those guitars up -- and play hard and loud -- but in the end, we're all about taking country music and setting it on stun. That's what we do, and that's what this song is about.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
