Jimmy Carl Black Quotes

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

Jimmy Carl Black

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We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

Jim Wallis

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My playing is all about feel. I'm completely self taught: I never took any lessons or anything.

Joey Kramer

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I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.

Joel Coen

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I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.

Jennifer Morrison

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You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

John Corigliano

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Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.

Mike Nichols

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When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and poets, so anything they ask me to do for Smokey is going to get a yes.

Dennis Edwards

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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Booker T. Washington

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I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low - but you can't just shoot for four hours every day.

Susanne Bier

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China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.

Sun Yat-sen

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I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

Susan Orlean

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I don't hate anybody.

Richard Sherman

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