Abbey Lincoln Quotes

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

Abbey Lincoln

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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.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• Incommensurables cannot be compared.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Cannot
  • Compared

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• The world is always terrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Always
  • Terrible

• I want to help people; that's it.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Help
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Great
  • Space

• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Accomplishment
  • Desires

• 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.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
  • Best
  • Feelings

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Ed Wood
  • People
  • Guy
  • Girl

• You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Great
  • Know
  • Dress

• I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Twitter

• 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.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Clothes
  • Tattoos
  • Nerdy

• I tried to catch a falling star And you saved me by lighting up the dark You brought the beat back to my heart Before I lost the will and fell apart You made it right and you saved my life You saved my life

  

  Jo Kwon 2AM
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Right

• To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Positive

• All I wantIs one breakWhich is notMy neck.

  

  J. P. Donleavy

• In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

  

  Tacitus
  • Power
  • Course
  • Seeking

• My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say, '0.7.' I said, 'What's normal?' They say, '0.6.'; I said, 'One-tenth? You're telling me I'm one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that - you must have caught me on a low day.'

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Levels
  • Normal
  • Average

• The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • World
  • Heart
  • Woman