Lena Horne Quotes
A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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I remember being really shocked after Mellow Gold came out and going on tour, and all these kids were there. It totally disturbed me. Who are all these young people? I'd been playing Mississippi John Hurt covers in coffee shops to a bunch of thirty-, forty-, fifty-year olds. Then all of a sudden there were these teenagers.
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To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.
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I saw what he went through. The crying, the screaming in pain, and how much it hurt. I watched that and feel in my heart that people shouldn't have to go through that.
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A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.
