Eldar Djangirov Quotes
The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.
Eldar Djangirov
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
Natasha Trethewey
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
Camille Paglia
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
Warren Spector
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
Natalie Massenet
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
Ozwald Boateng
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In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.
Felix Dennis
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
Barry Jenkins
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When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
Wendy Kopp
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
Samuel Johnson
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
Jane Austen
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His mother told him, 'Someday you will be a man, And you will be the leader of a big old band. Many people coming from miles around To hear you play your music when the sun go down. Maybe someday your name will be in lights Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'.'
Chuck Berry
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There are lots of things I won't eat but would like to, such as croissants or ice cream - if I started, I'd scoff the whole tub.
Marie Helvin
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
Karisma Kapoor
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I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.
Lapo Elkann
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People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.
Danny Meyer
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The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.
Eldar Djangirov
