Norman Granz Quotes
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.Norman Granz
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
Rand Paul -
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
Najib Razak -
In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
Katee Sackhoff -
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall -
This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
Kallam Anji Reddy -
Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
Felicity Jones
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
Kailash Satyarthi -
I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
Victoria Aveyard -
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
Gary Larson -
I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
Wendell Pierce -
I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
Karen Allen -
In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
Oscar Isaac
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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
P. J. O'Rourke -
As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
Abby Wambach -
I'm not here to judge Mike Tyson. I'm not here to judge nobody. I'm not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
Irena Sendler -
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
Ben Carson -
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon
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That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.
DJ Khaled -
I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.
Priyanka Chopra -
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
Charles Dudley Warner -
The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
John Paul DeJoria -
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
Norman Granz