Lee Konitz Quotes
I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.
