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Spike Lee: It is really...

Spike Lee: It is really...

It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very...

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Sacha Guitry: The best way...

Sacha Guitry: The best way...

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

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Judy Collins: I have inspiration...

Judy Collins: I have inspiration...

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. I call them part of the joy of living, and they...

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Judy Collins: I don't think...

Judy Collins: I don't think...

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the...

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Judy Collins: Suffering is the...

Judy Collins: Suffering is the...

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the...

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Joan Baez: Good morning, children...

Joan Baez: Good morning, children...

Good morning, children of the 80s. This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue.

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Woody Guthrie: Life has got...

Woody Guthrie: Life has got...

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with...

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Mahalia Jackson: It is easy...

Mahalia Jackson: It is easy...

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the...

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Robert Orben: A toast to...

Robert Orben: A toast to...

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

Source: In Webster's...

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Max Roach: My point is...

Max Roach: My point is...

My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally,...

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Sonny Rollins: I am interested...

Sonny Rollins: I am interested...

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

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Miles Davis: When kids don't...

Miles Davis: When kids don't...

When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school . . . But you won't see it...

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Count Basie: I was always...

Count Basie: I was always...

I was always willing to say, Let's see what happens, when something came up that looked like it might help me get a...

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Ella Fitzgerald: It isn't where...

Ella Fitzgerald: It isn't where...

It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.

Source: In Ella...

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Nina Simone: Jazz is not...

Nina Simone: Jazz is not...

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we...

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Hedda Hopper: Two of the...

Hedda Hopper: Two of the...

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox...

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Claudette Colbert: Men don't get...

Claudette Colbert: Men don't get...

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Source: In...

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Lana Turner: A gentleman is...

Lana Turner: A gentleman is...

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Source: In 2,715 One-Line Quotations for...

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Ellen Terry: Imagination, industry, and...

Ellen Terry: Imagination, industry, and...

Imagination, industry, and intelligence --the three I's --are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the...

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Ellen Terry: Conceit is an...

Ellen Terry: Conceit is an...

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Source: Ellen Terry's Memoirs,...

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