Lee Konitz Quotes
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a role model for women across the world. She proved beyond a doubt, with her life and relentless courage, that women can certainly do everything.
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Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
