Marian McPartland Quotes

That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.

Marian McPartland

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I'm of the school that you've got to show a distinction between Democrats and Republicans. And in order to have the base energized, you've got to show that the party stands for something.

Jim Inhofe

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The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.

Jodi Benson

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As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.

Jim Lee

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War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Robert Runcie

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There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.

Russell Peters

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I'm a traditional wife in every sense.

Monica

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The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Derrick Rose

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In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

Colson Whitehead

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In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

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We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.

Sharan Burrow

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And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.

Tiger Woods

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The late '70's and early '80s is the zenith of a certain craftsmanship in sound recording.

Thomas Bangalter

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