Top 100 Hampton Quotes
#1. On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.
Henry Hampton
#3. I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Christopher Hampton
#4. I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
Fred Hampton
#6. Boss up on your emotions before you become a slave to them.
Dream Hampton
#7. So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
Lionel Hampton
#8. Some people speak a lot, but have very little to say. Some people speak very little, but have very much to say.
Mark Hampton
#9. Prayer is a leader's best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life.
Teresa Hampton
#10. Keep a minimum of 15 between coffee tables and sofas
Alexa Hampton
#11. The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs
Dave Hampton
#12. East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
Eva Gabor
#14. The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
Hampton Sides
#15. Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like.
Paul Singer
#16. In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.
Fred Hampton
#17. I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
Christopher Hampton
#18. We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.
Henry Hampton
#19. For breakfast I have grits, because I'm a Southern girl!
Shanola Hampton
#20. I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
Hampton Sides
#21. I'm sorry, I will not change what I am or pretend to be something else just so that you will like me. Why? Because I don't want to wake up one day and realize that everyone likes me...except me!
Brooke Hampton
#22. I've been shot at and missed and shit at and hit. That's a saying out of my childhood and it's come true more than a few times along the way.
Hampton Hawes
#23. I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
Hampton Sides
#25. There are many, many pricey streets in the Hamptons. There's South Hampton, Bridge Hampton and East Hampton, the three major towns. East Hampton has the largest selection of celebrities.
Steven Gaines
#26. We're tying off string at the edge of Hampton's claim when I notice Jefferson staring at me. "You don't have to watch my eyes," I grumble. "When I sense gold, I'll tell you straight."
"That's not why I'm looking," he replies, and Hampton fails to keep the grin from his face.
Rae Carson
#27. That time when you confused a lesson for a soulmate
Dream Hampton
#28. Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.
Shanola Hampton
#29. We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. Anais Nin
Debbie Hampton
#30. My lord, I cannot thank you enough for what you've done for my daughters," he muttered. Lucien had paid Roland's debts, however it had cost her father his freedom to allow Lucien to do so. Their agreement
Denise Hampton
#31. When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
Hampton Sides
#32. Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner.
Jamie Hampton
#33. I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
Fred Hampton
#34. At 2:00 sharp on the afternoon of his internment, with his body resting in a casket in the front room of his home, the pallbearers--all bridge players--stuck a deck of cards in Mr. Hampton's cold hands, shut the lid over his head, and played bridge.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#35. The Vikings need to go down there and hit that town like Katrina.
Dan Hampton
#36. Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
Bobby Scott
#37. I did it! I stopped time.
[Hampton Green]
Tim Tharp
#38. I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.
Shanola Hampton
#39. Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.
Alexa Hampton
#40. I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
Rick Wakeman
#41. The Navajos were another matter. Theirs was a sprawling nation, wealthy in stock, obdurate in its ways, open to change but only on its terms.
Hampton Sides
#42. Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.
Shanola Hampton
#43. A dream without ambition is like a car without gas ... you're not going anywhere.
Sean Hampton
#44. Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
Lionel Hampton
#45. Remember that any functioning communication, and communication is a two-street; it requires my listening and my speaking. Our relationship with the Lord is no different. It requires my listening to God through a study of His word, and my speaking to God through diligent prayer.
Teresa Hampton
#46. Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.
Shanola Hampton
#47. The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
Lionel Hampton
#48. A person has to have a target, a goal, a mission statement, a dream, a vision of what she/he wants to accomplish, or nothing lasting will be realized.
Teresa Hampton
#49. I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.
Shanola Hampton
#50. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
Hampton Sides
#51. Lionel Hampton would invite a woman from the audience to dance with him, but
Tina Fey
#52. He and Helen spent the rest of the winter there, seeing friends and promoting his cigars. He staged one stunt in which he smoked three cigars at one time.
Wilborn Hampton
#53. I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
Hampton Sides
#54. I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.
Lionel Hampton
#55. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,
George Hodgman
#56. Drama doesn't just walk into your life. Either you create it, invite it or associate with it.
Brooke Hampton
#57. Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.
Vinita Hampton Wright
#58. You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?
Shanola Hampton
#59. I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Christopher Hampton
#60. I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.
Katharine Whitehorn
#61. It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.
Lionel Hampton
#62. Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
Lionel Hampton
#63. Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
Lionel Hampton
#64. Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
Lionel Hampton
#65. The surly orphan of American politics ... the grim joker in the deck, whose nightrider candidacy [is] a rough approximation of the potential for an American fascism. People
Hampton Sides
#66. For a few moments, please consider with me the lives of Moses, David, and some New Testament examples as well. I truly believe we can and should learn from their experiences which God has so lovingly guarded and preserved through the ages for our benefit (1 Corinthians 10:1-5)
Teresa Hampton
#68. There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power
Dave Hampton
#69. The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
Hampton Sides
#70. We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
Fred Hampton
#71. If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
Christopher Hampton
#72. Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
Christopher Hampton
#74. I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.
Andrea Bocelli
#75. There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Christopher Hampton
#76. When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his absence. "I am perfectly satisfied with her," he wrote. "She is everything I want.
Hampton Sides
#77. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.
Fred Hampton
#78. There's something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.
Shanola Hampton
#79. My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.
Debra Wilson
#80. We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.
Fred Hampton
#81. At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.
Jeremy Irons
#82. Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon.
Dream Hampton
#83. I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.
Colin Callender
#84. To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
Christopher Hampton
#86. Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.
Henry Hampton
#87. Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
Lionel Hampton
#88. You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
Fred Hampton
#89. Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead ... now that's what you call risk!
Dave Hampton
#90. Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
Steven Gaines
#91. If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher Hampton
#92. Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.
Fred Hampton
#93. Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society
Dave Hampton
#94. I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
Christopher Hampton
#95. Know the strength of the followers and tap into their energy. Get others involved. Trust them to do their best. Finally, don't forget to praise the workers.
Teresa Hampton
#96. All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
Lionel Hampton
#97. I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
Lionel Hampton
#98. I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
Hampton Sides
#99. You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
Christopher Hampton
#100. Personally, I don't find swearing offensive. I do find, backstabbing, lying, being a judgmental asshole, cheating and fucking people over offensive, but not swearing.
Brooke Hampton
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