Abbey Lincoln Quotes

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

Abbey Lincoln

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatPeopleMeMeetingSpiritDuke

Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.

Jenny Packham

DressDesignUpAroundBothWere

Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.

Jenna Wortham

WorkLiveTimeInterestingPersonal

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

Steve Case

BusinessAgeEarlyGotInterested

The investments and costs you have to put into digitalising means there will be an incentive for companies to merge.

Soren Skou

YouWillIncentiveCostsMeansPut

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Sidney Poitier

ChangeMomentSingleBecauseEvery

This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious. She was super involved, and is super creative, so I wore a lot of my actual clothes in the movie. Truly, Louise was my mom's vision. She really created an iconic character.

Robyn Lively

CharacterVisionStyleCreativeTeen

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

Ryan Adams

LoveMusicFootballReligionPoetry

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

Djimon Hounsou

LifeImpactViewReasonSeeThings

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Diane Abbott

TruthGovernmentTruth IsHonest

In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda.

Chellie Pingree

HomeMaineSeenAgainstFitAgenda

I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.

Bobby Wallace

MeDesireManagerNeverOldUp

We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.

Susan Glaspell

KindSameUsFlawlessStuffMade

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