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Cy Coleman Quotes

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 14, 1929 - November 18, 2004

Topics

Country Jazz Over Clubs Performed

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

People Forward Bear Reason Air Turn

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

Life Decision Me Kind Right Just

I am strongly opposed to any form of amnesty, including, especially, executive amnesty.

I Am Executive Form Including Am

I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.

I Am Kind Write Begin Writer Plot

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.

Louie Schwartzberg

Food Together Flowers Plants Story

In India, you're taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.

You India Human Human Being Divine

I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

Opportunity Hope Time School Rest

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

Cloris Leachman

Funny Time Something Truly

I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

Hope Together Me Song Stand Choose

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

Women Society Things Obvious State

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.

Freedom Parents Exercise Early Vote

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

Power People Me Geometry Over Who

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