Wynton Marsalis Quotes
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.
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I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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Edward raises the pointer and places its tip against Alec’s forehead. 'What’s the use of having a library in there if you won’t open the books, boy? What’s the good of augmented intelligence if you won’t use it?'
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Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. - The judge.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
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I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
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You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.
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I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.
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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
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I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.
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As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.
