Ahmad Jamal Quotes
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.
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I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.
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I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
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I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
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Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
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In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.
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You don’t create things, you discover things.
