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John Lurie Quotes

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Education Myself Musicians Career

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

Satisfaction More Always Individual

When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci. But times change, and so do attitudes. Now the comic is considered an art form, and I hope 'A Life in Words and Pictures' contributes a little to that art form's history.

Life Change Business Hope History

I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

Work God People Me Thinking Thought

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

John W. Gardner

Excellence Doing Things Well

This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out.

Law Legal Someone Year Unique Crime

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Thinking Quotation Always Everything

Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing to him would have been Steve McQueen.

Character You Know Him Out Cartoon

The seas are rising, and millions of people are going to be affected by that - and already are. We have to make sure there's enough food, water, and air.

Christopher Lloyd

Water Food People Enough Air Rising

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

Christian Lous Lange

Society Development Profound Here

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

Management Small Career Consultant

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

Brittany Howard

Time Day I Can Out One Time Onstage

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

Brian P. Cleary

Love Graceful Sophisticated I Love

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