Lena Horne Quotes

Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

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• Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Father
  • You

• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Secrets

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Sleep

• Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Son

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Why
  • Influence

• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luxury

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Kind
  • Find
  • Slavery

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Look
  • Ordinary

• I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Me
  • Information
  • Try

• I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Better
  • Grow
  • Comfort Zone

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Been
  • Hungry
  • Washington

• Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman

• Reform is 'the biggest dividend' for China.

  

  Li Keqiang

• The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

  

  James Heckman
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I am YOUR biggest fan, I love each one of you because of the support that you took to me. I know that people been saying that I do this for money, but I really don't. I do this for YOU, for your loyalty, for everything you've done, you are doing and you'll do in my life. Music has been my whole life since I was 4 years old, but you turned it into a whole experience of happiness. I know that I am not perfect, and maybe I don't worth it to put on your headphones and listen to this 14-years-old wannabe, full of ego and that brag about almost everything, but it's not about that, it's about you.

  

  Mateo Alexander Morrison Hidalgo
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• There are many who would like my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them. There are precious few who contribute to my time. I cherish them.

  

  Anton Szandor LaVey
  • Time
  • Share
  • Contribute

• Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Life
  • Man
  • Way