Margo Jefferson Quotes

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

Margo Jefferson

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• I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.

  

  Kate Micucci
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• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Doing
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• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
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• With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

  

  Barbara Amiel
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• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
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  • Up
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• I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • You
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• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

  Laura Harring
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• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

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• Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Trust
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• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Always
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• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

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• I don't like to look typical.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

  

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• I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!

  

  Janet Jackson
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• Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

  

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• Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Future
  • Past
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• I know it wasn't that good. But I wasn't ready for the re-mix. You gotta understand that.

  

  J. M. Roberts
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• The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Imagination
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• New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Imagination