Bill Laswell Quotes

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

Bill Laswell

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I got a lot of criticism for going back on 'Survivor' to play 'Survivor: All Stars.'

Jenna Morasca

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I grew up in a time when we didn't have the Internet, and we didn't have smartphones and things like that.

Andrew Zimmern

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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Maynard Ferguson

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I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

Ann Richards

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Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

Michael Bennet

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The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Robert Falcon Scott

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The first time I came to California was in January 2013, when I auditioned for 'Vampire Academy.'

Lucy Fry

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I'm attracted to things that make a point or have a certain point of view, but it's not a conscious thing that I decide to do every morning. Unconsciously, what I like has a social commentary in it, or it's about race, or it's risky to do. That's what I like doing.

Jason Blum

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I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.

Brian Setzer

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We have international organizations for health, trade, and football - even for coffee - but not tax. Why not?

Winnie Byanyima

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