Count Basie Quotes

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

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• Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Like
  • Saying

• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Age
  • Society

• Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Help
  • Peace

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Path

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Lost

• I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Design
  • Stuff
  • Dug

• If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Fight
  • Look
  • White

• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Kiss

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • India
  • Coming

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Men
  • Inevitable

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • People
  • Why
  • Guy

• I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

  

  Patty Murray
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Guy
  • Sound
  • Weather

• One of my favourite things to think about is, if you could be invisible and go back in time, where would you go? I've always said ancient Egypt. I would love to see them building the pyramids, and I've always had a real fascination with medieval time and monarchy in medieval times.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Time
  • Real

• I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It's like age. It's never bothered me. I've even forgot my birthday. Many times I've wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it's an honor, to be doing what I'm doing now at my age.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • People
  • Age
  • Birthday

• The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  

  Count Basie
  • Real
  • Being
  • Themselves