#ck

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#am #black #created #decided #everything

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#about #became #being #book #died

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films. ↗

— Jack Valenti

#attract #back #build #capital #china

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#angeles #been #blackwell #drum #drums

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#consistent #disguised #selfishness #sympathy #virtue

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#nothing #own #people #quickly #their

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#illuminate #lights #like #men #most

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#because #blame #celebrity #crazy #did

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination. ↗

— Doug Collins

#ago #another #back #bulls #challenge

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#am #back #because #better #collins