Lionel Hampton Quotes
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
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Your mind is the only weapon that can defeat you. No one can defeat you until your mind is clear
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Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
