Abbey Lincoln Quotes

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Create
  • Dangerous

• I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Worry
  • Financial

• Cara's always been a real tomboy. She was never really that into makeup. She's very quick at it.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Real
  • She
  • Makeup

• When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

  

  Elizabeth Arden
  • Beautiful

• We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
  • Writing
  • Business

• My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • People
  • Music

• So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Imitate
  • Al Capone
  • Nina Simone

• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Search
  • Questions

• Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Daily
  • Planning

• Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Social
  • Love Is
  • Instrument

• Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Great
  • Why
  • Acting

• Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Good
  • Real
  • Instrument

• Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Death
  • Control

• It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Envy
  • Imitate

• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Risk

• Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.

  

  Denys Johnson-Davies
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Recognition

• When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Trust

• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Things
  • Learned

• To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Secure
  • Laborer

• I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Instrument
  • Imitate