Sonny Rollins Quotes

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

Sonny Rollins

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GreatPeopleThinkLongCreateJazz

I love 'Cabaret' and 'George M!' They're both incredible as far as I'm concerned.

Joel Grey

LoveFarIncredibleConcernedBoth

I'm always eager to work with people I admire, people who have experience, who've made mistakes and made great things. That's the greatest teaching I could ever get in developing my own career.

Aneurin Barnard

WorkGreatExperienceMistakes

If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.

Michael Bennet

GovernmentFightPeopleDemocracy

People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.

Steven Pinker

PeopleMeYouKnowAcceptKnowing

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

GoodDecisionPastMeNameAchieve

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

WayAfraidBeingOnlyBeing Afraid

Aretha Franklin, she's just the most amazing singer ever. But I think there are so many singers that I just loved and sang along to on the radio. I guess I just enjoy trying out different styles along the way.

Corin Tucker

AmazingThinkLovedEnjoyTrying

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

Bob Menendez

ShortLongGrowingFirstEconomy

Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Atul Gawande

HeroDayMedicalMeAliveFirst

I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

GameThinkDutyNobilityBeenMuch

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

Thomas Kinkade

GodArtGotSavedAgentBecame

We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren't really Warrant or Poison. We were always outside the box. I think we had a little niche that nobody had - maybe the funkiness had something to do with it.

Nuno Bettencourt

CoolThinkNobodyNeverOutsideBox

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