#ay

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#brown #colors #exactly #fact #i

Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#back #been #buddy #dizzy #doing

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#anything #business #hit #hit record #kids

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know? ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#band #down #goes #his way #horn

I like to stay in the moment. ↗

— Shaun White

#like #moment #stay

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. ↗

— Edward Koch

#pay #stop #want

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evaluate #everybody #fact #intellectual #italy

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people. ↗

— Don Bluth

#day #game #i #lot #maybe

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them? ↗

— Don Bluth

#day #director #every #every day #go

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#history #i #influence #lies #logic