James Hubert Blake (Eubie Blake) Quotes

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

James Hubert Blake

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• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Young

• The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Incompetence
  • Utter

• No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Me
  • Books
  • Certainly

• It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Everybody

• I'm a kid who grew up working hard.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Working
  • Kid

• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Mind
  • Sorrow
  • Sympathy

• I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Liberty

• I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Everything
  • Take

• Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • She

• We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Death

• I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that.

  

  Luise Rainer
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Proud

• I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

  

  David Bowie
  • Water
  • Star

• When you get frisked by the police at the age of 10, and they empty your schoolbag out in the street and kick your books around and calling you names because of where you live, you just get an anger towards everyone who is outside of your neighborhood.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Live
  • Age
  • Police

• 'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • May
  • Movie

• Sharpton and Jackson are 'race brokers.' Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. 'Black enough' is just another tool in the bamboozler's toolbox.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Job
  • Black
  • Identity

• I feel a bit like when we came through the doors on the first day of rehearsals of that play, from that minute on, my whole life changed.

  

  James Corden
  • Life

• As much as the Congress is criticized - and a lot of it is well deserved - the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Done

• I think it's one thing to be able to dance, and it's another thing to learn all the wonderful moments of dance because in my day... it was the moving of dance.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Moving
  • Moments
  • Dance

• My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.

  

  Dawn French
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.

  

  Jim Jeffords
  • Important
  • House

• At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Ambition

• When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Music
  • Friend
  • Favorite

• The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Best

• Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

  

  James Hubert Blake
  • Friend
  • Envy
  • Overwhelming