Billy Strayhorn Quotes
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I am proud of what I've done.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
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When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
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I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
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I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
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You never toot your own horn.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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That which is impossible has a permanent and constant property, which is not the result if some agent, and cannot in any way change, and consequently we do not ascribe to God the power of doing what is impossible.
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Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
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He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
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You're in a mess, and in excess.
