Louis Armstrong Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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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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My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'
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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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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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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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You always expect to hit for more power.
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My mum raised me on 'On the Waterfront,' 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Rear Window.'
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I prefer playing with a band. It's good to do both, but for me it's quite exciting when I hear my songs completely transformed with the band behind me. You can really get into it more, and so can the audience.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.
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I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.
