Norman Granz Quotes
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
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No doubt I'm more comfortable. Last year I was kind of learning on the fly; this year I have a better sense of what to do and what not to do.
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I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes. What looks good on one person might not look good on another body type. I happen to be very confident in my own skin. It takes time to get to that place, but it's all about embracing yourself and your body.
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I'm a big person when it comes to doing what you believe in.
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If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
