Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of … - Nina Simone

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You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

Nina Simone

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

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It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

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It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

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I'm a real rebel with a cause.

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I'm not going to try and change you mind. " "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident. " "I know. " And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak.

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Josh Lanyon

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

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Terry Eagleton

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

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Steve Stockman

Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the Blues, Gary brings his vocation as a New Testament teacher together with his passion for the blues and gives the reader scholarly knowledge and wise insight.

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Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.

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