Ray Conniff Quotes

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

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• When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • College
  • Thought

• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Body
  • Force

• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kids

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• A girl's best friend is her pride.

  

  Vanity
  • Girl
  • Friend
  • Best

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Think
  • Confidence

• I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Law
  • Try
  • Forward

• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • People
  • Music
  • Friendship

• Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Nature
  • Falling
  • Bother

• I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Player

• The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Men
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Time
  • Age
  • Travel

• I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Thought
  • Seen
  • Ghosts

• Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Gift

• I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • People

• The Vine had struck a fibre: which about If clings my being - let the Dervish flout; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key, That shall unlock the Door he howls without.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • May
  • Door

• The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Different
  • Political

• Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • People
  • Death
  • Die

• I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

  

  Maureen O'Hara

• The court has to decide which of our approved desires has the better claim, right here, right now, and a court has to do more than read fairly when it makes this kind of choice.

  

  David Souter

• I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

  

  Ray Conniff
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