John Zorn Quotes

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

John Zorn

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I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

Joe Barton

EnergyCommon SenseWillTryBring

There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.

John C. Mather

StrengthGreatChallengesOrganizing

That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

Joel Salatin

YouJokeTasteWhateverPigsSauce

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

Tony Cardenas

FutureCommunityFocusNegativeMust

I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.

Roger Rees

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You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

Joy Behar

PoliticsYouKnowThreeWaySame

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

Dolores Huerta

PeopleViolenceTryingDownRunUs

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

Chuck Feeney

MoneySomeoneYouGotGoingGet

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

Armstrong Williams

EffortWorldLongSecuritySeriously

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Alice Walker

LoveTeacherWiseLovedWitty

I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.

Wong Kar-wai

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Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

Woody Hayes

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