Norman Granz Quotes
As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.
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I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be one of the great voice-over artists.'
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
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Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.
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As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
