Norman Granz Quotes
You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
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We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.
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We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.
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Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
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I agree with them. What the heck is going on with gas?
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You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
