Abbey Lincoln Quotes
The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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The world is always terrible.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
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(Kirk Gibson's World Series-game-winning home run, October 15, 1988, transcribed from mlb.com archives excising comments by color commentator Joe Garagiola)
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I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
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The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
