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 -
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
Malcolm Wallop -
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
Jack L. Chalker -
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving -
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 -
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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 -
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 -
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
David Bowie -
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 -
'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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.
Peter Bart -
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
Joe Cocker -
When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
Blair Underwood
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I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint.
Jack Roy -
Comin' close together with a feelin' that I've never known before, in my time.She ain't ashamed to be a woman, or afraid to be a friend.I don't know the answer to the easy way she opened every door in my mind.But dreamin' was as easy as believin' it was never gonna end.And lovin' her was easier than anything I'll ever do again.
Kris Kristofferson -
You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
Mike Tyson -
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
Hari Kunzru -
So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.
Bob Inglis -
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
James Hubert Blake