Jon Batiste Quotes

Claude Debussy's 'Children's Corner' is a suite with six movements just for piano. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Alfred Cartot's versions are amazing, but my favorite is Menininha Lobo's. Her version was done when she was an old lady - and you can hear it.

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In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.

Andrew Shaffer

TeaPoliticalDownPartyWashington

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

Andrzej Wajda

PastSpiritMadeFilms

I have a mind that always wants to be busy.

Matt Letscher

MindBusyAlwaysWants

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

Spencer Abraham

NatureRepublicanBeingMajority

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

Shirley MacLaine

PeopleDoingRememberMeditationSay

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Mason Cooley

OpportunityNameAlwaysAnswer

Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

Mohsin Hamid

OpinionMediaAttentionIndiaMore

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

Moby

LifeFearThinkLivingNarcissism

A lot of insurance companies don't protect transgender people because they think it's medically unnecessary, but we deserve to be covered, and this is life-saving treatment.

Jazz Jennings

PeopleThinkInsuranceProtect

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

Donald G. Mitchell

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Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

Bret Easton Ellis

HopeThinkChristianDreamAdapt

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Antisthenes

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