Billy Strayhorn Quotes
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.
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The No. 1 rule in any negotiation is don't take yourself hostage. People do this to themselves all the time by being desperate for 'yes' or afraid of 'no,' so they don't ask for what they really want. Instead, they ask for what they can realistically get. I've heard many people say, 'Well, that's a non-starter, so we won't even bring it up.'
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As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.
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I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.
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A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
