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.
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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.
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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.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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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.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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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.
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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.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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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.
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I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.
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We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.
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Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.
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One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.
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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.
