Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Quotes & Sayings

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else? — Mark Stevens

There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good. — Sarah J. Maas

During the so-called Jazz Age, most of the music's key exponents focused their creative energy on soloing not bandleading, on improvisation not orchestration, on an interplay between individual instruments not between sections.
[...] Commercial pressures, rather than artistic prerogatives, stand out as the spur that forced many early jazz players (including Armstrong, Beiderbecke, and Hines) to embrace the big band idiom. But even in the new setting, they remained improvisers, first and foremost, not orchestrators or composers. — Ted Gioia

If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation. — Hugh Prather

I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog. — Adam Rapp

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it. — Leo Tolstoy

Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others. — Bryant McGill

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65. — Neil Sheehan

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes. — Rico Love

The best thing about being a friend, is just being. — Laura Dower

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'
Clawing at the roof of her coffin. — Chuck Palahniuk