Benny Carter Quotes

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

Benny Carter

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• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Women
  • Really
  • Neighborhood

• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • You

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Growing

• The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • Art
  • Knowledge

• I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • North

• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Together
  • Team
  • Question

• Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Boy

• I know if it was the Time 99, I would've been off the list.

  

  John Mayer
  • Time

• I don't really think in career terms.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Career

• Travel is a passion. I intend seeing the world.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • World
  • Passion
  • Travel

• Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Design

• I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

  

  Doc Watson
  • People
  • Learning

• Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Political
  • Quality
  • Loyalty

• On my long list of hates about RPGs, one of them was, I always felt it was an unnecessary chore to make you care about a world when, in fact, what most players care about is their own personal experience.

  

  Chris Avellone
  • World
  • Long
  • Experience

• You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the day before - whether you had a good day or bad day - dictate the day you have that certain day.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Past

• Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Women
  • Small

• I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • House
  • Parents
  • Years

• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • May
  • House
  • Friend

• Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

  

  David Hockney
  • Live
  • House

• I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.

  

  Luke Donald

• I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Life
  • Career

• Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

  

  Benny Carter
  • House
  • Piano
  • Oscar