Billy Strayhorn Quotes
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
Danica Patrick -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
Warren Kole -
I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
Madeleine Albright -
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
Adam Clarke -
Greetings and death to our enemies.
Dan Aykroyd
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Val Kilmer -
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Damian Lewis -
I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
Olivia Colman -
Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
Edith Stein -
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
Larry Page -
The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
Randi Weingarten
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
Zig Ziglar -
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
Ralph Marston -
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Van Morrison -
Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
Padma Lakshmi -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
Kanye West
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I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.
Rachel Roy -
I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
Danny Glover -
Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.
Colson Whitehead -
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast, and no one goes out. Artists should have a chance to do it again. That's the challenge: Women artists don't get a second chance. People-of-color artists don't get a second chance. You're put in director's jail, and that's a wrap.
Ava DuVernay -
All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn