Benny Carter Quotes

It Strayhorn's Compositions made us all think a little differently about what we were doing.

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• I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Part

• You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Know
  • Simple

• Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Animal
  • Reflect

• One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • City
  • Acceptance

• You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Women
  • Help
  • Man

• Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Always
  • Win

• I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Never
  • Will

• I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Food

• What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • You
  • Know
  • Language

• If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Growing

• I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Happy
  • Past
  • Amazing

• I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.

  

  Sam Rivers Limp Bizkit
  • Play
  • Never
  • Anything

• Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Women

• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Easy
  • Cards

• We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Europe
  • Greeks
  • Blacks

• I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Business
  • Rock
  • Star

• The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Ocean
  • Confused

• For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Pain

• Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • She
  • Age
  • Wonder

• Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• It Strayhorn's Compositions made us all think a little differently about what we were doing.

  

  Benny Carter
  • Think
  • Compositions