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
  • Religious

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

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Fun
  • Best
  • First

• 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

• Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.

  

  John Burroughs
  • World
  • Present
  • Supernatural

• Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Retirement

• There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Latin

• Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Long
  • Thoughts

• There will be many men who will move one against another, holding in their hands a cutting tool. But these will not do each other any injury beyond tiring each other; for, when one pushes forward the other will draw back. But woe to him who comes between them! For he will end by being cut in pieces.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Cutting

• If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Men
  • Want
  • Should

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

  

  Ella Fitzgerald