Kamasi Washington Quotes

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

Kamasi Washington

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MusicTimeCreativeInterestingJazz

My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

Jerry Rice

StarsMePressureYouBackSaid

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

Maxine Hong Kingston

LifeHistoryMeWritingFeelKnow

I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993.

Jeb Bush

LifeMeThinkKindBeatMiss

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.

Sigrid Nunez

TimeExperienceLosingMemoryLose

Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down.

Tomi Lahren

SuccessFeelYouDownWillSeek

If a French woman wears jeans, it's never with flats - always heels.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

WomanNeverAlwaysHeelsJeans

Nobody is really going to bring my vision to life like the way that I am. Before I was doing my own music videos, it was not really my vision.

Joyner Lucas

LifeMusicVisionI AmDoingNobody

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Boyd Holbrook

WorkWantKindsDirectorsFilms

I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way from San Diego to Houston. We've got military bases all over the country. We can just move some people down there and let those cartels who are doing a lot of hurt to the youth of America, let those cartels fight against the Marine Corps.

Bobby Knight

GreatFightPeopleYouthThinkHurt

Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.

Shahid Khan

MeControlDestinyEmpowermentSense

A lot of being a woman in this business is about how you look... That's not why we're even in this business; that's not what people want from us. We're valuable because we're funny and because we have a voice and a point of view.

Nikki Glaser

FunnyBusinessWomanPeopleVoice

When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

Richard Dawkins

TodayFastRunAncestorsFirstThem

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