A.C. Davis Quotes
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy.
Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.
You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.
I found things in the woods that I didn’t know I was looking for… and now I’ll never be the same.
Sometimes the only way you could look at a person, and love them exactly the way you did before is to look at them with Brand New Eyes
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.
My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.
I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.
In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
