Abbey Lincoln Quotes
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.
