Norman Granz Quotes
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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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.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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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.
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Of course, nothing just falls into your lap - to get where I am now, I've worked hard.
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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.
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I've sung in the shower for years.
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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.
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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.
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It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.
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Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
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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.
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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?
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In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men, can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can save those young boys from desolation, suicide and drug addiction, all sorts of things, providing they're consensual.
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The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
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By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
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If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.
