John Haley Sims (Zoot Sims) Quotes
We were all influenced by Lester Young. Listen to the records that he made with Count Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.
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You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.
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The nearest way to God Leads through love's open door; The path of knowledge is Too slow for evermore
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.
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I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.
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We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.
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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
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I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.
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Why can't I be friends with somebody who's gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It's stupid.
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where Im going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.
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Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.
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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
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I grew up influenced by different cultures, sounds, feelings, emotions, and I want Premiere Classe to be a representation of that.
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We were all influenced by Lester Young. Listen to the records that he made with Count Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.
