Albert Murray Quotes

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Albert Murray

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• I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Today

• Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Sea
  • Generation
  • Leave

• In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Rock
  • Falling

• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
  • Director
  • Easygoing

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Business
  • Politicians

• My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Wish
  • Big
  • Heroes

• Being insecure – I'm a master, a virtuoso – they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Hope
  • Master
  • Key

• People really think that the only way I got to be press secretary is because I somehow had a personal family connection to the Bushes or the Cheneys, and that wasn't true.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Family
  • True

• A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Mind
  • May
  • Light

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Work
  • Career
  • Alone

• Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Divas need their furs!

  

  Martha Reeves

• When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Men
  • Shoes
  • Nasty

• As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Trump
  • Friendship

• I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Book

• The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Truth
  • Author

• All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

  

  Homer
  • War
  • Sea
  • Battle

• What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

  

  Charles Bock
  • People

• The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Community

• I actually don't mind it. It's the ultimate kind of pop art statement in a way, if you think about it.

  

  Clem Burke Ramones
  • Way
  • Don't Mind
  • Pop Art

• When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

  

  Albert Murray