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Norman Granz Quotes

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 6, 1918 - November 22, 2001

Topics

Year Concert Still Continue Four

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

Time Together Window Problems You

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

Fire American More Soldiers Outside

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.

Business Great Experience People

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

Well Everybody Movie Did

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

People Tough Nails Two Things Well

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

Christopher Moore

People Chance You Look Nobody Will

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

Work Me Think Changes Within Sharp

I think we've got to be competitive here in Illinois. It's critical we're competitive. We're hurting our economy by having the minimum wage above the national. We've got to move back to the national.

Think Back Minimum Wage Economy Here

I just want to be the best version of me.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Best Me Want Just Version

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

Children People Retirement You Say

When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.

Children Wife Woman Parents Mom Go

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

Success Think You First Get Most

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