Hugh Masekela Quotes

For me to want to play the trumpet was a very, very odd thing for my clan as a whole. One of my uncles was a high school principal, and he referred to my trumpet as a bugle, which really hurt me.

Hugh Masekela

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My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass that on to me. I like to think that I embrace that.

Joe R. Lansdale

FatherMeStrongThinkHellHonor

Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

Joe Bastianich

HateLazyThreeNothingUseless

A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to hunt boar and deer - is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.

John Burnside

KingForestBackPlaceNewWood

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

Johann Lamont

MenBornJustArgueMaybe

My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.

Jennie Finch

WorkRelationshipDatingMeHusband

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Anna Deavere Smith

I AmLuckyDentistFantasticDoctors

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

Jeffrey Sachs

PovertyCrisisAfricaEssence

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

Marvin Sapp

LiveWorldImpactDieEarthLeave

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Lou Holtz

LifeGodBestFocusSchoolMy Life

I'm not just going to get a deal; I'm going to get the deal. And in my deal I got by signing with No I.D. to Def Jam, I got full creative control, the money was great, the contract was good, and I got to create the album that I wanted.

Logic

GoodGreatMoneyCreativeControl

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

Joseph Rotblat

WarColdMomentumRaceSidesIron

I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company - a service - that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc.

Dick Costolo

PowerServicePeopleWorldRoadYou

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