Al Jarreau Quotes

I slept fourteen feet from a polka tavern as a kid growing up. I heard polkas all night long, people singing and drinking beers and having a great time. I know more polkas than Frankie Yancovic!

Al Jarreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1940 - February 12, 2017

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I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.

Joe Green

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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

John Millington Synge

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Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

Matthew Desmond

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I am blessed to have an incredible staff of other highly competent paralegals, lawyers, and others that I have surrounded myself with. This is not a one-man band by any stretch.

Michael Avenatti

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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Steve Coogan

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Without creativity, I'd be just 'blah blah blah.'

RJ Cyler

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If you're not enjoying your work, what's the point?

Mike Colter

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Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.

Michael Pollan

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What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

LL Cool J

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My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

Lois Greenfield

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Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Joyce DeWitt

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I've always been a focused person who knows how to get what I want.

Jojo Moyes

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