Margo Jefferson Quotes

When innovations become habits, prescriptions, they must be imagined all over again, made new.

Margo Jefferson

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• I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Egypt

• I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Same

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Magic

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Songs

• Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Community
  • Action

• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Admire
  • Guess

• On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Same
  • Entertainment
  • Apple

• I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • Money
  • Perfection

• The object before us, to begin with, material production.

  

  Karl Marx

• A Moment's Halt - a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste - And Lo! - the phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from - Oh, make haste!

  

  Omar Khayyam

• And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings with which I then set foot in Emmendingen.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Reading
  • Serious

• A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • True
  • Single

• A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Thinking

• Impostor syndrome, or feeling like a fraud at work, at home, or anywhere else in your life, will probably affect you at some point.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Time

• There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

  

  Arrigo Sacchi
  • Pride
  • Dignity
  • Black Players

• Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Sequence
  • Compose
  • Metronome

• When innovations become habits, prescriptions, they must be imagined all over again, made new.

  

  Margo Jefferson