Ornette Coleman Quotes

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

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• People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Awesome
  • Fantastic

• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Learning

• I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • Animal
  • Favorite

• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Long
  • Feet
  • Safe

• It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Time
  • World
  • High

• My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Service
  • First
  • National

• American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • American
  • Know
  • Management

• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Never
  • Vision
  • Look

• My career is an open book, but my life is not.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Book
  • Career

• I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Professional

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • Today
  • Society

• I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Up
  • God
  • Free

• In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • You
  • Lying
  • Lie

• Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • Writer
  • Someone

• I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • Words
  • Meaning

• An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Actor
  • Cannot
  • Censor

• I love every character in the DC universe, except for Rampage. Rampage is a She-Hulk rip-off, and I like She-Hulk.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • She
  • Character
  • Universe

• I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?

  

  Alan Cooper
  • World
  • Why
  • Evil

• In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.

  

  Johnnie Cochran
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?

  

  Martin Mull
  • Why
  • Persons

• When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Cool

• I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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