Billy Strayhorn Quotes
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
F. Gary Gray -
I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
Yulia Tymoshenko -
I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
Tamra Davis -
The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
Jack Keane -
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
Ian Frazier
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
Wanda Sykes -
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson -
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown -
My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
Damian Lewis -
I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
Sam Jaeger
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I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
Wendelin Van Draanen -
Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
Yitzhak Shamir -
I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
Venus Williams -
How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
Ted Cruz -
I've got a lot of miles on my legs.
Calvin Johnson -
In the busy haunts of men.
Felicia Hemans
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I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.
Dick Van Dyke -
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
Ato Boldon -
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Albert Camus -
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka -
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson -
I'm not fit company for man or beast.
Billy Strayhorn