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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Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
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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.
