George Wein Quotes
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
Quotes to Explore
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
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I've always had really messy hair.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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I don't need to publish to make a living.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.
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As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.
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I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.
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An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
