Mike Figgis Quotes

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

Mike Figgis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 28, 1948

Topics

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Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.

Jennifer Hyman

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You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.

Jennifer Lopez

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All that counts in life is intention.

Andrea Bocelli

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Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we're also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.

Ann McKee

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Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.

Stephen Covey

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The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

Simon Mainwaring

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Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

Shirley Manson

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Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

Robin Morgan

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Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, much like their grandparents or great grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow era.

Michelle Alexander

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Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.

Mimi Kennedy

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The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.

Julia Glass

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When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on Wall Street. But one source of rural prosperity is the adoption of radical new technologies - and a consequent surge in productivity.

Chrystia Freeland

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