Norman Granz Quotes

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Challenge

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Faith
  • Vision
  • Courage

• I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Years
  • Old
  • Gymnastics

• There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Years
  • Questions
  • Ask

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Look
  • Ask

• Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Learning

• I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Understanding
  • Progress

• 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.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Chance
  • Windows

• 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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • People
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• I'll fucking beat the fuck out of you.

  

  Justin Bieber

• To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• 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.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham

• 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.

  

  Elle Macpherson
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

  

  Carole King
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Lost

• When people are in trouble they need to talk.

  

  A. I. Bezzerides
  • People
  • Needs
  • Talking

• We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else

  

  William Glasser
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Learning

• I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Judging
  • Talking