Louis Armstrong Quotes
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
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I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'.
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Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.
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I've cried a lot because of women. I cry a lot, as a person.
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Jake Gyllenhaal is such a nice guy.
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I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.