Artie Shaw Quotes

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijana, and will expire on cocaine.

Artie Shaw

• Jazz
• Marijuana
• Whiskey
• Cocaine

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• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Religion
  • Name

• From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Night

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Up
  • Road
  • Walk

• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Children
  • Why
  • Still

• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Moments
  • Teacher

• If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Long
  • Live

• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  

  Larry David
  • Long
  • Service
  • Army

• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Know
  • Distance
  • Loyal

• While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Important
  • Internet
  • India

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Power
  • Running
  • Body

• In the case of the cashew, someone, somewhere, a long time ago determined that it had to be roasted. The cashew was once nicknamed the blister nut, because if you try to eat it raw from the tree, your mouth pays the price. The cashew is not a nut, however; it's a seed.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Tree

• The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Man
  • Model

• In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Nice
  • Best
  • Goal

• Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Red
  • New
  • Modesty

• Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

  

  Marcello Mastroianni
  • Women
  • Real
  • Trouble

• I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Great
  • Different

• A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?

  

  Dean Alford
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Minutes

• We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world as in Christianity, but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.

  

  Ernst Haeckel
  • God
  • Force
  • Reflection

• Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its origins Classical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Jazz
  • Obvious
  • Amalgam

• Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijana, and will expire on cocaine.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Jazz
  • Marijuana
  • Whiskey