Lee Konitz Quotes
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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We care about margins.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.
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The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.
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I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.
