Billy Eckstine Quotes

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

Billy Eckstine

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 8, 1914 - March 8, 1993

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I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

Joanne Froggatt

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But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Maynard James Keenan

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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Max Weber

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I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.

Matt Mullenweg

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I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.

Jeff Lindsay

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You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

Mercedes Ruehl

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What's good about not being a model is that it's not the thing I trade on. Once I start looking older, that won't affect me. I have never gotten anything done because I'm, like, so gorgeous. I'm good-looking enough that I can work in the business.

Amy Schumer

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Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

John Podhoretz

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It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

Summer Sanders

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I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

Tracey Emin

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I shot part of 'Resurrecting the Champ' in Denver, and I spent a summer going to survival school in Colorado Springs.

Rod Lurie

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I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

Mike Huckabee

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