Booker Little Quotes
Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
Laura Linney
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
Rachel Weisz
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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
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
Dan Stevens
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
Brown Campbell
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
Balaji S. Srinivasan
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
Taslima Nasrin
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
Q-Tip
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In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
Larry David
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
Sadie Jones
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Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.
Napoleon Hill
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.
Terry Teachout
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Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.
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