Lena Horne Quotes
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
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I'm an actor.
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All lightly shimmering in the heat, these lifeforms, like wonders much reduced. Rough likenesses thrown up at hearsay after the things themselves had faded in men’s minds.
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A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.
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Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
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Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
