Elvin Jones Quotes
I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
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I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'
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I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.
