Norman Granz Quotes
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.
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What's the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third.
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To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.
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Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit - it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.
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I'll fucking beat the fuck out of you.
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To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
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When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.
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If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.
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The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.
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Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.
