#were

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#charity #enemy #every #every man #executioner

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#idea #life #long #loved #made

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#beginning #being #being human #end #epic

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #believe #charlie #close #columbia

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#as far as #concerned #country #far #knight

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#comedians #customers #funny #great #had

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#expect #must #plan #prepare #were

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#confidence #doing #fleetwood #fleetwood mac #good

They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#appropriate #band #certain #certain things #could

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#art form #back #broadway #changed #comedies