John Lurie Quotes

Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?

John Lurie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1952

Topics

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I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

Jimi Hendrix

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I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

John Cassavetes

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In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

Tony Snow

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I think I must be one of the only actors I know who has never even auditioned for a small part in 'Eastenders.'

Tom Mison

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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Robert Bork

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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Robert Browning

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There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Roger Staubach

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I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.

Rudy Giuliani

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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

Miranda Richardson

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joseph Joubert

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When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

Chris Fussell

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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Antonio Porchia

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