Louis Armstrong Quotes
Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Values are more important than money.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.
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You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection...you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is.
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Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.
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That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
