Lena Horne Quotes
After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.
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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.
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It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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And then the last album, 'Get It', was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.
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I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
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If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
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After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.
