Billy Eckstine Quotes
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
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Although 95 percent of the world's market for products exists outside the U.S., many small firms do not have the resources and personnel to take advantage of these opportunities.
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I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.
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Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
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The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.
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I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.
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Mom always liked me best.
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Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
