Anita O'Day Quotes
When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.Anita O'Day
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh -
There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
Rachel Bloom -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder -
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
Gary Wolf -
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
Salman Rushdie
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
Malcolm X -
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett -
I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
Lamar Alexander -
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
Adam McKay -
I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
Harrison Ford -
I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
Ze Frank
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
Achille Maramotti -
I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
Vera Wang -
To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
Magic Johnson -
If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
Kat Graham -
There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
Karl Marx -
War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
Walter Scott
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We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'
Lydia Millet -
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.
Ashwin Sanghi -
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.
Chris Van Allsburg -
Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.
John Irving -
As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
Quentin Crisp -
When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.
Anita O'Day