Bobby Short Quotes
I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.
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There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.
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Bright lights, they tend to burn out fast. So I shine bright, but I'm scared that it won't last.
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Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.
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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.
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I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
