Booker Little Quotes

My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.

Booker Little

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• Direction
• Jazz
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• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Culture

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Time
  • Water
  • Red

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Children
  • Why
  • Still

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Chance
  • Motivated

• There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Personality

• Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • History
  • Unsuccessful

• Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Children

• 中醫不過是一種有意的或無意的騙子。

  

  Lu Xun

• I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Age

• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Death

• My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents

• When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Writing
  • Song

• Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Great
  • Real
  • Done

• Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.

  

  Kevin Mitnick

• After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister.'

  

  Elle Fanning
  • People
  • Walking
  • Sister

• I could have been like so many other bloggers or 'influencers' who just have their agent and are more like celebrities, but I've never wanted it to be only like that. Of course, I still want that part in my life, but I also wanted to create a brand.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Life

• We did not want bloodshed, for we are not bandits. We would not be socialists, if we were bandits. /.../ When the preacher of the truth meets the death penalty, well - proud and defiant, I will pay the price.

  

  August Spies
  • Bloodshed
  • Bandits
  • Socialists

• On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

  

  Larry Wall

• Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Good
  • Important

• From far, from eve and morningAnd yon twelve-winded sky,The stuff of life to knit meBlew hither; here am I.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Life
  • Sky

• My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.

  

  Booker Little
  • Freedom
  • Humanity
  • Stress