Christian McBride Quotes

The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.

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• I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Place
  • Anxiety
  • Youth

• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Want
  • Beauty
  • Theatre

• We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Help
  • City
  • Taxes

• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Why
  • Home

• Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Doing
  • Because
  • Hospitality

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poet

• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Business
  • Way
  • Always

• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Mind
  • Project
  • Shape

• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Responsibility

• I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Happy
  • Comedy
  • Cheerful

• I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • World
  • Live
  • May

• The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Grow
  • Older

• There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Want
  • Stars
  • Type

• I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Politics
  • Audience
  • Cinema

• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Jesus
  • Heaven
  • Teacher

• Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star

• Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Marriage

• Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Poet
  • Foremost
  • Jim

• I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Like
  • Cheat

• Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Power

• When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Be larger than your task.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Task
  • Your
  • Larger

• The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.

  

  Christian McBride
  • New York
  • Played
  • Bands