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Alan Lomax Quotes

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

Alan Lomax

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 31, 1915 - July 19, 2002

Topics

Art Down Important First Everything

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

John Prendergast

Courage Go Africa See I See

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.

John Ridley

Day Achievement Organization Picture

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

Amber Tamblyn

Parents Me Friends Artists Lot

I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.

Robert Edwards

God Find Out Us Charge Laboratory

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.

Robert Walpole

Hope Constitution Crown Will My Own

I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.

Chris Kyle

Myself People Look Target Enemy Up

Those who can command themselves command others.

William Hazlitt

Others Command Who Themselves Those

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

Pippa Middleton

Myself Me Picture You I Can Done

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

Payne Stewart

Day Control Better Golf One Day Out

The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.

Shervin Pishevar

Communication Innovation Driving Been

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.

Seth Shostak

Gold You Find NASA Hunting Box

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Thomas Fuller

Fool Man Wise Hell Paradise