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
- Up
- Now
- Bigger
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
- People
- Pretty
- You
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
- Work
- Money
- Think
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

Ian Somerhalder
- Want
- Way
- Story
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
- Long
- May
- Think
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
- Long
- Security
- Cost