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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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 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'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while. So I go through different phases but I combine different things. I don't like things that draw too much attention. It's usually just things that complement me and aren't too loud.
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I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.
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It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.
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The most important thing for me personally is that I can connect with other people through my music. I want my album to be like a trip that people can take with me. My music is like me stripped naked because I open myself up completely.
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The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed.
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I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.
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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
