Norman Granz Quotes

If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.

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• A happy wife is a happy life.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Wife

• The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Language
  • Happens
  • Speech

• We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

  

  Abdallah Salem el-Badri
  • Start
  • Need
  • Invest

• In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Year

• After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Racism

• We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Live
  • Criticism
  • Circle

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Celebrate

• Of course, nothing just falls into your lap - to get where I am now, I've worked hard.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hard
  • Worked

• I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Time
  • Always
  • Three

• I've sung in the shower for years.

  

  Chris Pine

• A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Men
  • Success

• Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • People
  • Great
  • Perfect

• Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Agents

• I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Men
  • Live
  • Question

• One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Great
  • Men
  • Power

• Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Decision
  • Always
  • Looking

• Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Time
  • Elections
  • Frames

• I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences. In that period it became a daily exercise: the better off I had been in Ischia, the worse off Lila had been in the desolation of the neighborhood; the more I had suffered upon leaving the island, the happier she had become. It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of one required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Exercise
  • Sorrow
  • Discover

• Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Universe
  • Ready
  • Release

• It's fun to be the guy everybody looks to.

  

  Cole Hamels
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Looks

• If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Looks
  • Ready
  • Substantially