Lee Konitz Quotes
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
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What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
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I'm obsessed with muffins.
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There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.
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As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
