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Dave Brubeck Quotes

When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

Dave Brubeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 6, 1920

Topics

Goals Challenge Start Doing You Out

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

Jerry Spinelli

Nobody First Adult Books Kids Four

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

Jesse Helms

Politics Media Early Late More

I am a very hopeful person.

Jessica Capshaw

I Am Person Hopeful Very Am

Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

John Hickenlooper

Failure Government Tolerance High

I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.

Angie Harmon

Live Me Think Dumb Understand Right

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

Amy Purdy

Girl Sad Myself People Me Know

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Alvin Lee

School Practice Guitar Seriously

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

Rob Zombie

Money Career Movies Mean Difficult

You know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy... I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.

Rose Byrne

Good People Think You Look Know

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

Mindy Grossman

Results Will Ability Proof Execute

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

Louie Schwartzberg

Nature Fly Upside Down You Down May

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

Cornel West

Relationship Government Questions