Miguel Zenon Quotes
Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.
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So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
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Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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I think we have too much history. It’s not so important. I think people should have fun and enjoy their own time. I haven’t done much, so why should I waste people’s memory?'
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I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.
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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
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I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.
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I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
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The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
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My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world. Some of the greatest inspirations in my life have been black Americans. And I just wanted to say thank you. They've been a huge inspiration, to myself and this country.
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Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.
