Ella Fitzgerald Quotes

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Ella Fitzgerald

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Movies

• I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Government
  • Marriage

• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

  

  Raf Simons
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Fantastic

• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Always

• Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Know
  • Balance

• The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Control
  • Government
  • Stand

• I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Remember
  • Church
  • Week

• I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Fun
  • Best
  • First

• Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Study
  • Try
  • Computers

• I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Entrepreneur
  • Accidental

• The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Rest
  • Authority
  • Analysis

• I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Study

• 'Lucky we know the forest so well, or we might get lost,' said Rabbit half an hour later, and he gave the careless laugh which you give when you know the Forest so well that you can't get lost.Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.'Pooh!' he whispered.'Yes, Piglet?''Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Forest

• Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • America
  • Simple

• There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. … It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • Mind

• I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Children
  • Home

• Every baby born unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come due in twenty years with interest, an anger that must find a target, a pain that will beget pain. A decade downstream a child screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched, a firing squad is summoned, a button is pushed and the world burns.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • World
  • Pain
  • Baby

• I think actors worry too much about age. They should just get out there and make sure they're up for whatever jobs come along.

  

  Neil Morrissey
  • Up
  • Age
  • Worry

• It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

  

  Ella Fitzgerald