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Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ...
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We celebrate our history and the new generation of young emerging jazz artists who dedicate their he...
DEREK E. GORDON

Jazz at Lincoln Center is so grateful to the many friends from around the world who so generously co...
DEREK E. GORDON

It is people trying to use a genuine medium in disingenuous ways. We're seeing folks try to exploit ...
DEREK GORDON

We hope to make it an annual celebration.
DEREK GORDON

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
DEREK JETER

When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.
BO DEREK

For a long time, I wanted children. When I was about 30 or 32, I really thought about it.
BO DEREK

I think we all have this image that we're going to be the hold-out and show what 51 really looks...
BO DEREK

That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suff...
BO DEREK

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often he...
BO DEREK

I have never dated. I have no experience. It's terrible, and I'm scared to death of it, too,...
BO DEREK

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much ...
BO DEREK

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pi...
BO DEREK

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but ...
BO DEREK

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and...
BO DEREK

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses...
BO DEREK

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really...
BO DEREK

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend t...
BO DEREK

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
BO DEREK

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expressio...
BO DEREK

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when...
BO DEREK

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me...
BO DEREK

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always exp...
BO DEREK

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
BO DEREK

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never h...
BO DEREK

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. Al...
BO DEREK

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to...
BO DEREK

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work hard...
DEREK JETER

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in ...
DEREK JACOBI

I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find ...
DEREK BLASBERG

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
DEREK BOK

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get ...
DEREK SIVERS

I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchs...
DEREK BLASBERG

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just ...
DEREK LANDY

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content wi...
DEREK JETER

When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments....
DEREK CIANFRANCE

Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her
father’s other brother, a horr...
DEREK LANDY

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of...
DEREK JARMAN

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.
DEREK LANDY

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.
DEREK LANDY

mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves."
"Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?"
DEREK LANDY

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hun...
DEREK LANDY

At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of ...
DEREK WALL

I read; I travel; I become
DEREK WALCOTT

Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly lit...
DEREK LANDY

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.
DEREK LANDY

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your se...
DEREK JARMAN

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to h...
DEREK JARMAN

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the ...
DEREK WALCOTT

How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requ...
DEREK WALL

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
DEREK JARMAN

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its ...
DEREK WALCOTT

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
DEREK WALCOTT

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surf...
DEREK JARMAN

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
DEREK BOK

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
DEREK WALCOTT

The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malprac...
DEREK JARMAN

One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flower...
DEREK JARMAN

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...
DEREK JARMAN

An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ...
DEREK JARMAN

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
BO DEREK

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average
DEREK WALCOTT

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
DEREK BOK

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Har...
DEREK BOK

I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects ou...
DEREK BOK

Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's somethi...
DEREK JETER

For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doin...
DEREK JETER

Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important cours...
DEREK BOK

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge ...
DEREK BOK

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.
DEREK JETER

I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medica...
DEREK THELER

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ...
DEREK JARMAN

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
BO DEREK

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.
DEREK JETER

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
DEREK JETER

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business,...
DEREK JETER

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sou...
DEREK WALCOTT

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what comm...
DEREK BOK

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is ...
DEREK WALCOTT

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
DEREK WALCOTT

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
DEREK WALCOTT

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
DEREK WALCOTT

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins t...
DEREK WALCOTT

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average...
DEREK WALCOTT

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...
DEREK WALCOTT

I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music,...
DEREK HOUGH

It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want ...
DEREK HOUGH

Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby.
"Can it do any tricks yet?"
"I'm sti...
DEREK LANDY

I had an uneventful few days," it told her. "The most exciting thing was an hour-long lecture from t...
DEREK LANDY

The door handle turned. Someone knocked, and a man's voice called, "Uh, hello?"
Valkyrie looked...
DEREK LANDY

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have...
DEREK BOK

Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's......
DEREK CIANFRANCE

When I grew up, a director was Cecil B DeMille, a guy sitting down with a megaphone speaking. He was...
DEREK CIANFRANCE

My older brother gave me a cassette tape of Mr. Bungle, and I couldn't stop listening to it. I u...
DEREK CIANFRANCE

I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go som...
DEREK JETER

The man had a smooth voice, like velvet. “I’m Detective Inspector Me. Unusual name, I know. My f...
DEREK LANDY

The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really ...
DEREK HOUGH

I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what i...
DEREK JETER

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.
DEREK WALCOTT

Don’t kill me,” he sobbed as he lay there. “Oh God, please don’t kill me.”
“If you ...
DEREK LANDY

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.
DEREK LANDY

Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream...
DEREK LANDY

Valkyrie patted Fletcher’s arm. “Don’t worry,” she said. “If the bad man comes, I’ll pro...
DEREK LANDY

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have ...
DEREK JETER

I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they're known for b...
DEREK HOUGH

Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet ...
DEREK JETER

You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always s...
DEREK JETER

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen i...
DEREK WALCOTT

I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with...
DEREK JETER

I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to ...
DEREK CIANFRANCE

I'm a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the ...
DEREK THELER

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid befo...
DEREK JETER

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. ...
DEREK BOK

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relev...
DEREK BOK

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your...
DEREK JETER

Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I'd be pretty satisfied with my c...
DEREK DROUIN

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, l...
DEREK WALCOTT

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my fi...
DEREK MAGYAR

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another ...
DEREK FISHER

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. ...
DEREK CIANFRANCE

Gracious ignored him. "A farmer's daughter, she was, though back then every girl was a farmer's daug...
DEREK LANDY

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