Bessie Smith Quotes
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
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You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.
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Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.
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We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.
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I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.
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It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
