Tom Glazer Quotes

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

Tom Glazer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 2, 1914 - February 21, 2003

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My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice as hard as my white peers if I wanted to survive in America, and the second was that it was delusional and dangerous to believe I possessed the same freedom white people had to pursue my dreams.

Jenny Zhang

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I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

Maya Angelou

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I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

Robert Smith

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When did I start comedy? I came out of the womb and did 10 minutes.

Andy Kindler

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Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Stephen Harper

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In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.

Simon Beaufoy

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If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.

Roger Ailes

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I loved my experience on 'Downton Abbey.' We shot it in six months, and it was the first time I'd ever been on TV, and I was surrounded by my friends. It was a wonderful, wonderful time.

Rose Leslie

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It's important to stay current and fresh.

Luis Fonsi

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Lucy Larcom

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We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.

Jonny Wilkinson

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