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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If you think about any multiparty process where shared information is necessary to the completion of transactions, and the coordination of activity and the exchange of value, that's where blockchain technology can be put to good use.
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The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
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Governors sometimes have a hard time jumping up on a table and yelling the loudest because they've actually been there. They realize it's difficult to govern in a split environment.
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I'm sure there's a long list of one-time all-stars, and I don't want to be on it.
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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.
