Louis Armstrong Quotes

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

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• I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Question
  • Ideas

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Said
  • Cancer

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • World
  • Boy

• I'm just not very funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Funny
  • Just
  • Very

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Prayer
  • Ignorance
  • August

• When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Sound
  • Vote

• I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Career
  • Know

• I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Bored

• To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Care
  • Poverty

• 'It has always seemed strange to me,' said Doc. 'The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success.'

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Men
  • Success
  • Feeling

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Men
  • Experience

• Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Music