Norman Granz Quotes
At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.
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I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
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Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.
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At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further.
