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...influential recording? Nobody that day knew it would have this longevity. For us, it was just another Miles Davis date. Miles Davis made a lot of pretty good record dates, and we just figured this was another good one. (Read reviews of two books on the making of Kind of Blue...
...didn't have to keep working if you didn't want to. What's driving you to stay on the road and keep at it? I like to do it, and I'm really not at the point that you say I am. Being on a record like [Kind of Blue], you may think I was getting a lot of that money, which is not true. You can throw that one out. I'm just out there like a working...
...active honesty assessment. We need to be aware of the possibility that people are lying to us, and we need to demand honesty in other people. Otherwise we will get a canned affirmation. At the same time, we have to demand honesty of ourselves. We have to be the kind of people who don't tell white lies. We don't have to be cruel and totally blunt, but we have to convey information honestly. The paradox here is that if you are 100% honest and blunt, you will not be a popular person. Honesty is the best policy...
...nationalism - even though the security situation remains fraught. It would be political suicide for the Iraqi government, at this point, to reverse itself and bring U.S. tanks back into cities. Al-Maliki celebrated SOFA's official inception on June 30, with U.S. forces relegated to their bases, as a kind of "national sovereignty day." Parades were staged and al-Maliki spoke of the reduced U.S. visibility as an Iraqi victory...
...That kind of military unreadiness makes Iraqis nervous, as much as they want the U.S. out. Opinions on the street are heated and mixed. Some who want the U.S. to leave soon say a delay would postpone the probable power vacuum and accompanying bloodbath, which they hope will be short-lived. But that is the very reason others say it's not time for the U.S. to leave, because Iraqi security forces aren't ready and Iraqi politicians - pampered as they are patriotic - don't yet recognize that the country isn't prepared to go it alone. (See pictures...