Billy Eckstine Quotes
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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We just here to do our job.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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I like clothes that are fashionable but also have great messages for lifestyle, and 360 does just that - the sweaters are for women of all shapes and sizes and are designed to allow a woman to feel beautiful and chic from the inside out.
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A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.
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During the regular season, you don't have the sort of time you do in the playoffs to prepare for people, so you've got to go to your strengths.
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I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
