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Dexter Gordon Quotes

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1923 - April 25, 1990

Topics

Dreams Music Beginning People Me

Certainly I have more in common with Bernie Sanders than differences. I think if you had to look for differences, you would find them in foreign policy, where my campaign is perhaps more critical - I would say definitely more critical - of funding for regimes like that of the Netanyahu government, which are clearly war criminals.

Government War Think You Look Find

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

Sunset Time Me First Time Old First

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

Simple Book Complicated Write Idea

I only direct in self-defense.

Self-Defense Only Direct

Finding a picture of me without makeup is like trying to get the last Gucci bag at Neiman Marcus: not gonna happen.

Me Makeup Picture Bag Finding Gucci

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

Love Mind Remember Feeling Creating

I have introduced legislation - with other senators from both parties, like Bob Corker and Bob Menendez and Joe Manchin - called the 'Countering the Iranian Threats Act', specifically to clamp down on a lot of Iran's nefarious activity throughout the region.

Down Act Legislation Activity Like

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Michel Houellebecq

Change History Change The World Ideas

It's weird writing for a documentary because I have all these ideas for what I want to happen, but what actually happens is obviously completely different.

Ideas Writing Weird Want Happen

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

Anthony Michael Hall

Family Father Myself New York City

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Freedom People American Genius Old

I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.

Doing Find More Dancing Whatever

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