Abbey Lincoln Quotes

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

Abbey Lincoln

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 6, 1930 - August 14, 2010

Topics

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Sarah Palin's a quitter.

Jesse Ventura

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I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.

John Bercow

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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

Michael Arad

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You can work very hard on a crappy movie.

Stephen McFeely

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My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

Roald Dahl

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I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys.

Rory MacLean

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I believe in local control of education.

Russ Feingold

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Cape Town is beautiful. It's an extraordinary beach town with mountain ranges on either side.

Michael O'Keefe

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The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.

Lizzy Caplan

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Every country has the government it deserves.

Joseph de Maistre

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The movies that I love and model after, like 'Annie Hall,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' and in particular for me, 'Broadcast News,' are the tone of life, which isn't a setup punch-line every two minutes.

Jason Segel

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