Abbey Lincoln Quotes

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • Thought

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Restaurant

• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • Entrepreneur

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Passion
  • Youth

• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Me
  • Discovering
  • Incredibly

• I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Like
  • Rich
  • Relationships

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Hero

• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Doubt
  • Walking
  • Innocence

• I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Always
  • Years
  • Television

• Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Country
  • Talent

• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Society
  • Dignity

• I'm really resentful (of dad) ..., ... .... I suppose he deserved it. No, I couldn't be prouder.

  

  David Campbell
  • Dad
  • Suppose
  • Deserved

• How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death

• You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dress for a granddaughter, creating a beautiful birthday party. It's all part of life.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Music
  • Practice
  • Air

• We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Great
  • Music
  • Inherited