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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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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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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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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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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The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
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Cricket is my first love.
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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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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A lot of people were saying, 'I think you will play good on grass,' and I'm like, 'There's no way. I hate grass. I'm horrible.'
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
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I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.
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Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
