Les Baxter Quotes
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.
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It hurts being the one who loves more
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You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
