Ahmad Jamal Quotes

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

Ahmad Jamal

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The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

John Corigliano

PastRevolutionBuildEverything

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

Andrew J. Feustel

SpaceMoonBelievingOldYearsUp

I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.

Melvyn Bragg

I AmYearsJustAmDecided

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

John Oliver

MeLaughYouRealizeAskJokes

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

Tony Curtis

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To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen.

Michael Pollan

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I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Cher

MyselfBestThinkPlaceSinger

I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.

Bob Iger

PeopleMindEyeTreatThinkLook

I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

Ashton Kutcher

LifeTechnologyThinkYouOrganizing

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

Susanna Moore

LettersLivedFiveReadCollections

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

Peter Sis

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As all C.S. students know, first year is super easy, but second year is when things get harder. At least that's how it was in my experience. And I didn't have to save the planet between classes either. Instead, I went home and studied quietly. I was a party animal.

Ryan North

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