"All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life."

-- Count Basie

#Bigs Quotes #Shows Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.”
“When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I get to the studio and, once the image starts to emerge and come together, pleasure kicks in. And then you can see things that no other person can see.”
“I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.”
“I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.”
“To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.”
“Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.”

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