Don Was

Don Was
Don Wasis an American musician, record producer and record executive. Primarily a bass player, Was led the 1980s funk rock band Was. In later years he produced songs and albums for a large number of popular recording artists. In 2012, he became president of jazz music label Blue Note Records...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth13 September 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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He drives the meetings and asks tough questions. He likes dissent. He likes debate. He thinks it's very healthy, very constructive for the process.
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He drives the meeting, asks tough questions. He likes dissent, ... Late Edition.
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He does things to jump start us. He so active on the defensive end anticipating, creating tips and steals, that he acts as a catalyst for us and really gets us going.
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having done very well in the last 10 years in developing softball not only in the international level but also in the national level.
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Having been up in an area where they have a lot of good actors, she's never had a part this big before. She has transformed herself from a Long Island housewife to a Southern truck driver's wife and developed that character quite well.
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He made this thing 25 years ago. It's a cargo chute that's been rubberized. There's a foot-wide Velcro seam up the middle. Everybody picks it up and walks it in. Art Lloyd uses a truck with a boom to pull out the pole after the festival.
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He might have had some jitters early, but overall he gave us some great innings. His stuff was good. It was just a matter of working through his control problems early.
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He might be well advised to shop around elsewhere. There might be other jurisdictions that might be more receptive to that lifestyle.
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We can make him go out there and take 100 ground balls but then he's not going to be able to play. It has to be the right kind of work.
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We can handle the traffic if the railroad is going. We have the infrastructure...but I'm not confident UP has a real handle on the situation yet.
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Whatever happens with my career, I'm going to prosper no matter what.
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There is a fundamental change taking place in terms of how corporations create value and arguably, in terms of the core architecture of the corporation. I think it's the biggest change in a century in the ways that companies build relationships and interact with other entities, institutions in the economy and in society and arguably, the nature of the corporation itself.
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We talked about the things we should have done better and the players made the corrections today.
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We try to expand the series each year.