Billy Strayhorn Quotes
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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I make our family traditions a priority.
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I'll live a lush life in some small dive.
