Billy Eckstine Quotes
Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
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I find the business world hard.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
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One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.
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The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.
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Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.
