Benjamin David Goodman (Benny Goodman) Quotes
As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
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I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
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We got a thousand points of lightFor the homeless man.We got a kinder, gentler,Machine gun hand.We got department storesAnd toilet paperGot styrofoam boxesFor the ozone layer.Got a man of the people,Says keep hope aliveGot fuel to burn,Got roads to drive.
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As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
