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Billy Strayhorn Quotes

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

Billy Strayhorn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 29, 1915 - May 31, 1967

Topics

Love Government Think Dawn Fall

I try and take it for what it is, and I'm very at peace with the fact that when I'm done with the songs, they don't belong to me anymore. They belong to the listeners.

Peace Me Done Try Belong Take

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

Enough Moments You Go Where Going

There was a phase when I and people around me listened to Prince a lot. A lot. We took Prince fandom to the extreme.

People Me Extreme Prince Phase Took

Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?

People Think Citizenship You Done

When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

Business Progress Believe Meetings

If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

Stefan Sagmeister

Great Time Believe Better Design

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

People Brain Think Interested Most

My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions, so we didn't watch TV. And he didn't want any music playing that wasn't gospel or inspirational music. In fact, he didn't even like a lot of gospel because he thought it was too bluesy.

Inspirational Father Music Thought

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Work Love Day Me Doing Acting

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

Funny Me Growing Up Seeing Growing

We can't let government make long-term commitments that it may not be able to keep.

Government May Keep Long-Term Able

I love you, what star do you live on?

Love Live I Love You You Star

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