Lionel Hampton Quotes
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.
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I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.
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Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
