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Jay McShann Quotes

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 12, 1916 - December 7, 2006

Topics

Play Always Little Big Used Like

The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.

John Lanchester

Good Good Times Economics Restaurant

In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.

Jon Ronson

God People Voice Powerful Early Say

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Dennis Farina

Small Budget Said Movies Buddy TV

Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.

Doris Lilly

Time Money Busy Making Money See

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them.

Doris Lilly

Man Sex Will Get Very Them

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

Chris Klein

Sports Swimming Gold Thought Award

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

Claire Tomalin

Today Children Short Attention Being

I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic.

Brian Behlendorf

Opinion Person Will Software Company

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

Ashley Judd

People Think You Want Intentional

The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true.

Peter Schiff

Depression Government Think True Us

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Todd Young

Responsibility Money Compassion Name

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Niels Bohr

Question Affirmation Must Understood