Abbey Lincoln Quotes
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.Abbey Lincoln
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
Gary Bettman -
When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
Fantasia Barrino -
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Nancy Duarte -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
N. Murray Edwards -
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
Oliver Tambo
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Oswald Chambers -
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson -
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
Fatos Nano -
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I don't feel closeted.
Adam Lambert -
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn -
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
Ian Mcewan -
I made nothing happen very slowly.
Gary McCord -
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
Pam Grier
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
Samantha Fox -
When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.
Jesse Ventura -
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
Oscar Wilde -
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
I don't like whining about the challenges I face while I work. I know they are for the better so I can rise stronger and better.
Mawra Hocane -
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
Abbey Lincoln