Lena Horne Quotes
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There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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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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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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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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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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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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One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
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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 tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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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 want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
