Andre Previn Quotes

People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

Andre Previn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: April 6, 1929

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They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

John Hume

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Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

Robert Kennedy

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My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

Angie Thomas

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We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it's also even more important to be a good person, so that's what I learned.

Aly Raisman

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We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

Sue Johanson

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I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

Tracy Morgan

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Until the absorption of the Polish territories, the Russian Empire had had practically no Jews, and it was uniquely ill-equipped to handle this new addition to its ethnic and religious mix.

Tom Reiss

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The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Michelle Obama

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Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.

Clint Eastwood

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I saw 'Starbuck' before I ever knew I would be involved in 'Delivery Man,' but I liked it, and then a couple of months went by, and I really knew I wanted to audition for it when it became available.

Cobie Smulders

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle

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Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

August Wilson

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