Abbey Lincoln Quotes
I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Women just love to shop.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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Some days, I do feel that pressure of, 'What do I mean as a black woman? What am I representing?' It honestly just gives me anxiety.
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Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
