Quincy Jones If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. – Quincy Jones Bands Quotes Biggest Quotes Charlie Quotes Dealing Quotes Experience Quotes Guys Quotes Parker Quotes Seattle Quotes Started Quotes York Quotes It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn’t stand seeing them hurt like this. I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
Noreena Hertz Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments’ ability to protect the rights of their own people. – Noreena Hertz
Simon Schama Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story – as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation – but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between. – Simon Schama
Birch Bayh I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. – Birch Bayh
Lionel Trilling It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. – Lionel Trilling
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