Jack Adams Quotes
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
Kate Smith -
If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
Ed Westwick -
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe -
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
Bat for Lashes -
My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
Halldor Laxness -
I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
Earl Monroe
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
Kanye West -
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
You can't get emotional about your work.
Yolandi Visser -
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson -
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
Harlan Coben -
When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
Victoria Justice
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
Felicity Jones -
When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?
Nancy Lublin -
Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
Samuel P. Huntington -
We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
Earl Blumenauer -
I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
Inga Muscio -
I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
Sam Shepard
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
Quincy Jones -
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
Mother Teresa -
I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
Taylor Lautner -
You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
Vance Packard -
I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
Carl Paladino -
You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
Jack Adams