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Gladys Knight Quotes

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

Gladys Knight

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 28, 1944

Topics

Style Queen Me Singing Thought Jazz

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

John Hickenlooper

Live Time Together Country Growing

Sometimes it's better to not read too much, to not listen to everybody.

Angelique Kerber

Better Too Much Sometimes Listen Too

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Jeff Bezos

Home Light World Thinking Ready App

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

John Turturro

Stars Think You Aggressive Ambitious

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.

Sonny Rollins

Enough Play Jazz Movement Modern

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

Roger Ailes

Work Failure Age You Find Go

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

Mitch Kapor

Better You Information More Use

The Eyemo was heavy and could be noisy. Once, I was in an auditorium filming a speech made by Goebbels when, suddenly, it decided to emit a huge snarling sound. Goebbels froze, and hundreds of uniformed Brownshirts turned and glared at me in anger. It was not a comfortable moment.

Douglas Slocombe

Moment Anger Me Speech Comfortable

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

Christopher Darden

Sleep Law Night Doing You Accept

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

Father American Distance His Blacks

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

Pierre Loti

Moon World Silver Nothing Bright

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

Peter Davison

Change Change The World People World