Lee Konitz Quotes
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or people back home. For games like that, it's cool, but just signing on and playing random people, I hate it.
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You've got to be realistic.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
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Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.
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'Our savior will resurrect us,' said Peggy, 'but I haven’t noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens.'
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A responsive administration is tested most at the point of interface between the administration and the people.
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Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.
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Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
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God is in the details.
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I think writers are born, not made.
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That's my goal: to get the world to know who Romeo Santos is. His music. My music. Even if they don't like it, I want them to know who I am.
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When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
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Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. (p. 120)
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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.
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In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
