Lena Horne Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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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.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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There's no regrets for me.
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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.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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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.
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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.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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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.
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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.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.
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As quoted in Zirkle, Conway (1935), The beginnings of plant hybridization p. 105
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I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
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In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
