Gerry Mulligan Quotes
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.Gerry Mulligan
Quotes to Explore
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
Sam Hunt -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
Abraham Verghese -
I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
Lars Mikkelsen -
I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
Tamron Hall -
I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
Adam Brody
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
Vicki Lawrence -
If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
Daniel Bryan -
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
Rabih Alameddine -
I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
Orlando Bloom -
The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
Venus Williams
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Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
Jackie Robinson -
If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
Carl Hubbell -
Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
Ambrose Bierce -
I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.
Maripol -
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
Joe Eszterhas -
To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a huge compliment to say, 'O.K., you have physical abilities that are kind of above and beyond.' But at the same time, I feel like it diminishes the mental side of the game.
Colin Kaepernick
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You have two choices in life - you can dissolve into the main stream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different you must strive to be what no one else but you can be. Don’t be so concerned with the opinions of others; those who follow the quiet, creative voice from within are both fortunate and correct.
Bob Proctor -
I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
George Duke -
Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.
Victor Hugo -
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
Gerry Mulligan