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Sonny Rollins Quotes

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

Sonny Rollins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 7, 1930

Topics

Mother Adapt Island Become Melody

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Jimmy Dean

Business Money People You Play Old

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

Jimmy Nail

Myself Discipline Day Me Every Day

Nothing is a calling card. Everything is what you do. If you do it in order to get somewhere else, you're not actually doing it. If you're thinking, 'What is the weird thing I want to make with my friends?' money and other things will come later.

John Cameron Mitchell

Money Thinking Weird Friends Doing

I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.

Jenson Button

Fitness Want Right Eat Whatever

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

Jeremy Gilley

Think Humanity Cooperation Faces

No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.

Matthew Walker

Family Time Sleep Entertainment Up

The consequences of poor nutrition and a lack of exercise are serious.

Amy Klobuchar

Exercise Consequences Serious Poor

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

Mike Ross

Service Career Congress Become Never

The omniscient narrator is a bizarre technique, when you think about it, and no one uses it much anymore. But for the novels I want to write, it's the only approach that makes sense to me.

Min Jin Lee

Me Think You Want Write Sense

I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.

Little Simz

Myself Racism People Law Speak Feel

This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.

Jayma Mays

Morning Stairs Happen Cat Up Like

My most memorable design-related encounter was also one of my most life-changing. I met Joyce Rutter Kaye, 'Print''s editor-in-chief from 1998-2008. It was at 6 A.M. on a cross-country flight from New York to Vancouver for the 2003 National AIGA conference.

Debbie Millman

New York New Flight Memorable Most