Louis Armstrong Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.
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There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
