Hoagy Carmichael Quotes

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

Hoagy Carmichael

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 22, 1899 - December 27, 1981

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I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic.

Johan Cruyff

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While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.

John Catsimatidis

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All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

Andrew Forrest

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I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I was DJing parties in high school.

Statik Selektah

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Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

Dianne Feinstein

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One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

Dick Van Dyke

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'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.

Dee Rees

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I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

Alice Walker

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No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

Shia LaBeouf

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It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this Important Story Of The Day, when actually, once you walk out the front door, it is people getting on with their lives.

Richard Quest

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I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.

Renata Tebaldi

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'Cod' was a great story. It let me talk about the environment without putting people to sleep.

Mark Kurlansky

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