Ron Cephas Jones Quotes

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

Ron Cephas Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 8, 1957

Topics

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I love Katy Perry! She's very charming.

Joan Rivers

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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

John Boyd Orr

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In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

John Griffin Carlisle

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Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was jealous he wasn't working at New Line.

Michael De Luca

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When you work extra, you should be paid extra. That's what the Fair Labor Standards Act said. And I've met so many people who are working 60-70 hours a week, and they are effectively working 20 hours for free because they are making a little bit above the minimum wage, because the 2004 regulation enables employers to do that. That's not fair.

Tom Perez

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Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Jon Corzine

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I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Jonathan Davis

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I know I don't look edgy, but I have found that in my personality, I just have this natural energy that I enjoy edgier characters, and I really want a chance to sink my teeth into something like that.

Dove Cameron

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When I get a fringe, it's because I'm bored or need a change; I always regret it!

Chloe Sevigny

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What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.

Allegra Huston

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We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

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