Lena Horne Quotes
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and every one has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
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The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.
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Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
