Lena Horne Quotes
In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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The roughest road often leads to the top.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
