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Benny Green

"I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky."

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Donna Grant

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

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Donna Grant

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

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Donna Grant

"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."

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Donna Grant

"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."

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Donna Grant

"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""

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Donna Grant

"It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system."

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Donna Grant

"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."

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Donna Grant

"In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries."

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Donna Grant

"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."

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Donna Grant

"The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially."

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Benny Green
"Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed."

Time

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Benny Green
"Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us."

Family

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Benny Green
"He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer."

People

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Benny Green
"Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father."

Music

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Benny Green
"I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing."

Character

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Benny Green
"You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music."

Music

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Benny Green
"I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky."

Country

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Benny Green
"We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people."

Trust

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Benny Green
"I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape."

Books

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Benny Green
"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."

Jazz

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