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"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."
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"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."
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"He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!"
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"Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you're the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you've been since the day I met you. Finally, he put "beautiful at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared."Sweet talker, I scoffed. "You didn't know anything about me the first time we met."I knew you were beautiful, he said. "I just hoped for the rest."
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"Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive."
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"When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'"
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"As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'"
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"For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common."
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"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."
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"Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around."
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"In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead."
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"A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another."
Thought
"History passes the final judgment."
History
"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."
Work
"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."
Family
"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."
Being
"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."
Positive
"If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't."
Career
"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."
Life
"My autobiography was simply the story of my life."
Life
"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."
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