Billy Strayhorn Quotes
I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.Billy Strayhorn
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
Magnus Scheving -
I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
Jack Whitehall -
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra -
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Ida B. Wells -
The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!
Wayne Dyer -
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
Taye Diggs -
OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
Sam Yagan -
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
Patrick Demarchelier -
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
R. D. Laing
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
A. J. Cook -
I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
Jack Kemp -
When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
Bebe Neuwirth -
One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
Victor LaValle -
Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.
Jack Ma -
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
Fanny Crosby
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Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.
Kurt Vile -
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
John Bates Clark -
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Oprah Winfrey -
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
Debra Wilson -
I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.
Billy Strayhorn