Chuck Mangione Quotes

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

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• In Australia, kids play in American accents.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Kids
  • American
  • Play

• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Flying
  • Saying

• You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fear

• There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Something
  • Humility

• We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hard

• When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Energy
  • Crazy

• Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dream

• It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • True
  • Me

• I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • Political
  • Change

• When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

  

  Edmund White
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I draft tweets, like, 20 times.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Like
  • Times
  • Draft

• Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Fighting
  • Competition
  • Place

• The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Human
  • Poet
  • Tiger

• You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Done
  • You

• There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Reading

• The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World

• Errantes silva in magna et sub luce malignainter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaveret tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos,quorum per ripas nebuloso lumine marcentfleti, olim regum et puerorum nomina, flores.

  

  Ausonius

• In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Enemy
  • First

• People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.

  

  Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
  • People
  • Nice

• I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • She
  • Kids
  • Black

• One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

  

  John Zorn
  • Tired

• In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

  

  Chuck Mangione