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.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Corruption
  • Incidents

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Women
  • School

• 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.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Computers

• 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.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • My Life

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

  

  Larry David
  • Home
  • Divorce
  • Lights

• Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Night
  • Day
  • Fool

• Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Me
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Me
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • House

• 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.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Kids
  • Stress
  • Anxiety

• To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Up
  • Book
  • Thoughts

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Game
  • Games
  • Selfish

• It's always fun when people ask you for advice.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fun
  • Advice

• 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.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Man
  • Light

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Street

• There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Girls
  • Illusion
  • Recover

• Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

  

  John Cameron
  • Time
  • Work

• All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • World
  • Education
  • Food

• Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Good
  • Space
  • Sex

• Jamie Dornan is one of those guys who has no idea how gorgeous he is. He's crazy in love with his girlfriend and a crazy talent and a great singer and a great actor; just a lovely, lovely human being. It kind of makes you want to throw up a bit, but in all the right ways!

  

  Jennifer Morrison
  • Up
  • Great
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Bobby Short
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