Mick Jagger Quotes
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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I went out with the same girl throughout all four years of high school.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history and culture, and I like the serenity of Buddhism there. It's very beautiful. I find that to be a very nice place to visit.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.