Abbey Lincoln Quotes

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

Abbey Lincoln

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicPeopleLookingLookFindSee

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.

Jesse Kellerman

ArtChoicesBetterMoreSpecific

If you fall in love with someone, it doesn't matter who they are. I've had lots of girlfriends who weren't in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though you've sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.

Max Beesley

LoveEyeSomeoneYouFallMatter

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

Matthew Perry

LovedUpPlayingPartGrew

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

Mercedes McCambridge

LifeBlueBlackHouseI CanBuy

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

Alphonso Jackson

BlackLongCountryDemocratsFar

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.

Spencer Abraham

PeopleYouRunRiskAbilityHigh

My hope is to create spaces where people of all stripes can come together and speak at a lower decibel level. We make more sense that way. We sound more like our real selves that way.

Tracy K. Smith

HopeTogetherPeopleSpeakCreate

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

Rooney Mara

ChallengeThoughtNeverUpScared

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Joshua Foer

TodayTimeMemoryAlienSeemUs

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Dorothy Denning

KnowledgeMotivationToolsViolence

My bed is actually two king beds put together.

Cindy Margolis

TogetherKingBedTwoActuallyBeds

Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

WomenTimeDoingKnowPretending

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