Benny Green Quotes

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.

Benny Green

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 9, 1927 - June 22, 1998

Topics

PeopleForwardVoicePotentialHelp

Certainly, we need to support the communities around the country, and we do.

Jim Walsh

SupportCountryNeedAround

I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'm the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out.

Jennifer Konner

GivingFurnitureOutJokesSawJust

If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age of the burning aftermath.

Amitava Kumar

AgeTravelFlightEventsBurning

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Stephen Hawking

WorkGoodForwardBlackThinking

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

Rodney Brooks

PeopleComputersYouHousePlay

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.

Judy Smith

LeadershipTimeNegativeFaceThink

I can go 0-for-5, I can go 5-for-5, I'm going to be the same guy. I'm a happy guy, people have to deal with it.

Jose Reyes

HappyPeopleI CanGoSameGoing

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

Jose Rizal

FreedomRoutineDownDangerousPress

It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.

Chellie Pingree

PeopleCrazyConstitutionTrueClear

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Cherie Lunghi

I AmStartYouVanityInevitable

I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?

Craig Horner

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