Woody Shaw Quotes

The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.

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• Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Win
  • Changes

• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Pet

• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Night

• To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Good
  • House
  • Question

• I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Lost
  • Space
  • Find

• I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Image
  • Super

• I love 'Glee.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Glee

• Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • God
  • Live
  • Song

• Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Powerful
  • Problems
  • Welcome

• I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Home
  • Discipline

• Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Actor

• My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Best
  • Things
  • Jokes

• The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Done
  • War
  • Enemy

• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. 'In love-ness' is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about 'happy' and 'unhappy' marriages.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Happy
  • Strong
  • Marriage

• We can only have true public safety with public trust.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • True
  • Trust
  • Safety

• It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Time
  • Long

• Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!

  

  Chris Wood
  • Hate

• Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Abstract

• I love Felicity Jones. It was funny because I went to go see the 'Rogue One' set, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And she's so tiny, and elegant, and she's just so small. Everyone's so much smaller than they seem.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • God
  • Funny
  • Like

• Fury made a name for himself in America, and as a fighter, you have to establish yourself there, first and foremost, to be known worldwide.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • America

• I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Long

• The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.

  

  Woody Shaw
  • Country
  • Something
  • Building