Chick Webb Quotes
You know something, man? Some day I'm gonna be walking up the street one way and you're gonna be coming down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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They hate whom they fear.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
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It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.
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You know something, man? Some day I'm gonna be walking up the street one way and you're gonna be coming down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.
