James Hubert Blake (Eubie Blake) Quotes
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Cricket is my first love.
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You cannot run faster than a bullet.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
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There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.
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Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY.
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The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)....Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.'
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When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.
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I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.
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I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.
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Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
