Lionel Hampton Quotes
Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there.
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Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
