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Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Sax...
STEVE LACY

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist ...
STEVE LACY

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. I...
STEVE LACY

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violi...
STEVE LACY

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wan...
STEVE LACY

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spiri...
STEVE LACY

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, an...
STEVE LACY

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot ...
STEVE LACY

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
STEVE LACY

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.
STEVE LACY

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
STEVE LACY

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a par...
STEVE LACY

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was fu...
STEVE LACY

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So ...
STEVE LACY

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
STEVE LACY

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
STEVE LACY

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
STEVE LACY

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
STEVE LACY We're acquiring a great brand, [and] introducing it into our stores will attract new shoppers...who ...
ALAN LACY Clearly business is slowing down. Everybody is cutting back a bit, but our focus has been to structu...
ALAN LACY We probably are going to become a little bit less of a department store, with less emphasis on appar...
ALAN LACY Given the slowing economic environment, 2001 will be a challenging year, particularly in the first h...
ALAN LACY On a stand-alone basis, Sears Canada's retail business faces an increasingly competitive retail envi...
ALAN LACY further refine its core business strategy.
ALAN LACY If people can't pay the credit in 180 days, and these are people who would pay in the 240 days they ...
ALAN LACY We are pleased that sales in core businesses such as lawn and garden, tools and apparel have shown s...
ALAN LACY Kevin left the company at my request because I lost confidence in his personal credibility, ... His ...
ALAN LACY We knew that this would be our toughest quarter as we reached the height of our reposition efforts, ...
ALAN LACY

I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants o...
JAKE LACY

As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveil...
SARAH LACY

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't wher...
SARAH LACY

You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the f...
SARAH LACY

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.
SARAH LACY

Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do i...
SARAH LACY

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the ...
SARAH LACY

My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans...
SARAH LACY

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.
JAKE LACY

It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We'...
SARAH LACY I am the future generation. I believe peace, justice and brotherhood can be accomplished.
LACY HOWARD Most of the rescue operations have been completed and they're moving into recovery mode,
BILL LACY

I would say I'm a goof ball, but not a comedian.
JAKE LACY

Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for g...
SARAH LACY

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere e...
SARAH LACY

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public gl...
SARAH LACY As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperc...
LACY HUNT

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the worl...
SARAH LACY

I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivo...
SARAH LACY While revenues are lower, we continue to be pleased with the progress we are making on our repositio...
ALAN LACY That's one fight that I'm looking forward to happening. I've always told you I'm not going to duck S...
JEFF LACY

If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even somethin...
SARAH LACY Second, it's important to bring Richard back to actually speak in the Dole Institute, which he was s...
BILL LACY Not knowing where or how I decide,I know now that I should never hide,Not knowing now or how I begin...
OLIVIA LACY We believe that most Sears Canada shareholders will agree that $16.86 is a fair price and will tende...
ALAN LACY She just adores him. She sits in his hand and stares at him, and he just loves it.
LAURA LACY I don't buy that injury for a minute. He's just ducking me to get out of the fight,
JEFF LACY The stock market has given off false signals in terms of anticipating recessions, but it has never g...
LACY HUNT

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned o...
SARAH LACY If your heart is made of steel,sure enough,it's never going to get bruised,or broken,but it will alw...
OLIVIA LACY Love is overrated, and has always backstabbed me, I have never been the one to trust it, it causes t...
OLIVIA LACY They should start very slowly and build up. They probably should have a physical examination, especi...
ALAN LACY ‎"I'm all alone,cold,and chilled to the bone,When I call,You never answer the phone,Now I know how...
OLIVIA LACY (Pearl River County) had significant damage in the southern part of the county,
BILL LACY

It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to t...
SARAH LACY

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I...
SARAH LACY Love doesn't fix things for you; it destroys what is left in your heart.
OLIVIA LACY The industry isn't dying. The industry is adjusting. What that means is, there's not a need for as m...
STEPHEN LACY We are concerned that speculation reported in the press may be misleading the market regarding our i...
ALAN LACY We do a dangerous job but we don't want to ever minimize the value of our personnel,
BILL LACY Along with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa is responsible for the end of the Cold W...
BILL LACY They needed incident managers and I was fortunate enough to be available at the time. Several of us ...
BILL LACY We are delighted to have two outstanding guests to talk about this topic.
BILL LACY We are delighted and honored that Richard will be coming back. First, he is working on a book that m...
BILL LACY Dan is uniquely qualified to discuss this issue given his current role and very significant politica...
BILL LACY Crying,feels like the answer,but deep down,all it does is make your heart die,and everything turns t...
OLIVIA LACY Although we are very far apart,I'll always give you love from the depths of my aching heart. I love ...
OLIVIA LACY You hold my heart in your hand, do whatever you please with it, you will just do as much damage as y...
OLIVIA LACY He's not a fighter I can overlook at all. He was able to knock out Omar Sheika, a guy who I couldn't...
JEFF LACY

Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right rea...
SARAH LACY I think that if you look at these bills, it's not going to be that easy to qualify. It's not somethi...
ELAINE LACY We're looking at a group that is making a valuable contribution to society. It would be ludicrous to...
ELAINE LACY The thinking behind that is that if you teach them in their own language first, by the time they lea...
ELAINE LACY In many cases the family needs income so the student will drop out. Literature on this issue also sh...
ELAINE LACY We found that a huge percentage of the Latinos living in Louisiana and Mississippi are still homeles...
ELAINE LACY

Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There a...
SARAH LACY

A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can't innov...
SARAH LACY

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to g...
SARAH LACY The net effect was to induce a tightening mode in the markets, in bank lending and in total bank res...
LACY HUNT

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.
SARAH LACY We feel very humble the hospitals have held this reception for us. We don't want the hospitals to be...
LACY HARBER We play better at home, but this is a chance for us to get away and focus. This is better for us.
LACY MINGEE And the hype got to us a little bit last time.
LACY MINGEE There's a physical aspect to these two teams, so we go back-and-forth a lot. We're very similar.
LACY MINGEE Council needs to keep looking and keep encouraging as developers come forth. There's not an awful lo...
LACY KING We've got somewhere around 2,500 housing starts in this community - which is phenomenal. This is gro...
LACY KING It's going to be a busy four years.
LACY KING We've basically been in one long recession that started in the fall of 2000,
LACY HUNT The risk to the economy is that we lose the consumer -- and I think we are losing the consumer.
LACY HUNT The economy's not doing well, so it's appropriate to do what you can. But the notion that deficit sp...
LACY HUNT In Japan, for example, the debt deflation started in 1990 and price deflation started in 1992 or 199...
LACY HUNT The country is entering a period of debt deflation, where households and businesses are forced to mo...
LACY HUNT In the past two years, we've seen the budget go from surplus to deficit, adding about $400 billion o...
LACY HUNT I don't think any benefit of the dividend tax elimination is worth the increase in the deficit.
LACY HUNT This economy is too fragile to sustain this type of severe rate rise; the consumer sector is leverag...
LACY HUNT It's always good to have all aspects of the game come together and mold together. When we get all co...
LACY HOWARD I feel like all nine players on the lineup can produce; we can't depend on one person to [score runs...
LACY HOWARD I am very happy with the way we're playing. We've all come together. We all know our role. That's th...
LACY HILL We have to move on. It's a great game, we won. We'll celebrate, but (today) we have to go back to pr...
LACY HILL It was a very big game to us, probably pride-wise more than anything. We went down to their house an...
LACY HILL Scottish Rite Hospital for Children took me in. I wore a brace for seven years.
LACY HARBER We are leaving each hospital $5 million in a trust, but this could be increased each year. We will k...
LACY HARBER These are girls just starting to figure out who they are as individuals. who they are as people. The...
LACY ASBILL It?s an unfortunate fact that most kids don?t get the level of support they need at this time in the...
LACY ASBILL We're seeing loss of interest in school at a younger and younger age.
LACY ASBILL We will still fight on November 5th. Everyone had
been telling me all along to have a backup p...
JEFF LACY I can't get up for training unless I'm in a big fight, and this is going to be a fight fans want to ...
JEFF LACY I suspected all along that Calzaghe didn't want any of this. I kinda prepared myself for it but it i...
JEFF LACY Jim has never taken a dime from either one us, ... In fact, he's given us more money than we could e...
JEFF LACY It's like driving. You either get in an accident or you don't.
JEFF LACY It is an honor for me to fight in the (Tampa) bay area, ... It's something I always dreamed of doing...
JEFF LACY I think my performance I put on tonight spoke for itself [on what he would like to say to Joe Calzag...
JEFF LACY I took his best shots and he couldn't take mine. That was the difference of the fight. I get stronge...
JEFF LACY I was thrilled. I'd gotten to a point in my life where I wanted to make a difference and give back i...
LAURA LACY Jim Busch has more personality in his little paw than I would hope for in a lifetime.
LAURA LACY All their defenses are down. There's no more big, tough driver. You see the hearts of these guys. It...
LAURA LACY It's a community unlike anything I've ever seen.
LAURA LACY You wouldn't believe how many of these drivers have animals and how important it is for them to have...
LAURA LACY Karen has this amazing ability to capture certain things, certain emotions, even in animals, that ar...
LAURA LACY An economy that was clearly bad has gone to worse after those (Sept. 11) tragedies took place,
ALAN LACY Men take my picture and sometimes give me money. They ask me to take off my clothes and then they ta...
LACY M. JOHNSON You weren't there when my heart was ripping, and tearing inside; you were never there to watch it di...
OLIVIA DANIELLE LACY We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-Ame...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice sy...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue j...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactic...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is to...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local poli...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR.

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.
STEVE LARGENT YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.
STEVE CHEN We're allowing technology to take out the non-value-added manual elements of the McDonald's ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK Ultimately, the bread and butter of McDonald's is delivering great service, great quality food, ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those specie...
STEVE IRWIN There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on.
STEVE CHEN The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
STEVE COOGAN

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
STEVE MARTIN

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ...
STEVE MARTIN

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi...
STEVE MARTIN

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, bec...
STEVE MARTIN

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
STEVE MARTIN

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They ca...
STEVE MARTIN

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ...
STEVE MARTIN

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
STEVE MARTIN

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
STEVE MARTIN

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN

Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk....
STEVE IRWIN

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
STEVE IRWIN

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
STEVE IRWIN

No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
STEVE IRWIN

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
STEVE IRWIN

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we ...
STEVE IRWIN

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from...
STEVE IRWIN

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been s...
STEVE IRWIN

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
STEVE IRWIN

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm get...
STEVE IRWIN

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to...
STEVE IRWIN

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted wi...
STEVE IRWIN

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet...
STEVE IRWIN

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
STEVE IRWIN

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
STEVE IRWIN

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
STEVE IRWIN

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, ...
STEVE IRWIN

There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Chris...
STEVE HARVEY It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed ...
STEVE ALFORD

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
STEVE MARTIN Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!
STEVE KING

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?&#...
STEVE JOBS

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night ...
STEVE JOBS

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't w...
STEVE JOBS

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The a...
STEVE JOBS

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
STEVE JOBS A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
STEVE HANKE

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake...
STEVE IRWIN I used to have a pseudonym for Twitter, and I'm trying to get my check to verify me.
STEVE MNUCHIN

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
STEVE ALBINI The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means...
STEVE STOCKMAN

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist ...
STEVE VAI

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and Novembe...
STEVE SABOL

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue befo...
STEVE BUYER

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and...
STEVE BUYER

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
STEVE BUYER

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong,...
STEVE BUYER

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

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