Abbey Lincoln Quotes
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
Umberto Eco
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
Samuel Goldwyn
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
Malcolm McDowell
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
Tamron Hall
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
Samantha Fox
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
Kara Lindsay
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
Rachel McAdams
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
Larry Brown
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
Dan Hill
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
Damien Rice
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
Lapo Elkann
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
Marc Andreesen
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
Yoko Ono
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They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.
Ray Brown