Armstrong Quotes - Page 3

• To be honest, if I had to pick somebody to be related to in sport, who's better than Lance Armstrong with what he's done for the sport and with his cancer foundation?

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Cancer, Done

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• In fact, I think 500 years from now, the two Americans so far who will be remembered are George Washington and Neil Armstrong, who, amazingly hasn't been paid very much attention.

  Kevin Gutzman

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Interview With Kevin Gutzman On George Washington". "Mike Church Show", www.mikechurch.com. May 1, 2013.

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• When I was little, my dad was in the Air Force. He introduced me to Neil Armstrong, and Neil Armstrong signed my moon book. I had a little moon book, which I still have somewhere, and he signed it, and he died. It's true.

  Rich Fulcher

  Dad, Book, Moon

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• According to the New York Post, Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olsen are dating. They must be getting serious - Lance gave Ashley his yellow Live Strong bracelet. She wears it as a belt.

  Chelsea Handler

  Strong, New York, Yellow

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• According to Life & Style, Lance Armstrong was seen canoodling with fitness model Kim Strother, and the night before, he was with Ashley Olsen. He's going from bar to bar picking up women - how does he get them home? Does he put them on the handlebars, or does he have a banana seat?

  Chelsea Handler

  Home, Night, Style

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• Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.

  Dan Morgenstern

  Keys, Three, Use

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• Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

  Martin Scorsese

  Legends, Courses

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• I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  People, Dancing, Singing

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• Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, Pushing, Steps

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• Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument.

  Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

  Skills, Jazz, Century

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• Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cancer, Talking, Paris

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me."

  Wynton Marsalis

  America, Musician, Jelly

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's funny because when there's something written about me in Velonews or Cyclingnews, the headline isn't "the other" Armstrong; its Armstrong wins another race. With Lance in retirement, everyone I know goes to those sites because they think Lance is racing again.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Retirement, Winning, Thinking

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• Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

  Sally Field

  Horns, Said, Ifs

  "OSCARS Q&A: Sally Field". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Sorrow, Spirit

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• I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.

  Andrew Buchan

  Actors, Garfield, Peter

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• Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moon, Men, Thinking

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

  Wernher von Braun

  Moon, Men, Evolution Of Man

  "Of a Fire on the Moon". Life magazine, August 29, 1969.

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• The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.

  George Steinbrenner

  Men, Names, Guy

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• I didn't really get that good at cutting because I didn't have those three years of gestating and nurturing my skills in the bedroom. I was kind of, like, out and playing in clubs after three of four months, because I was pushy with promoters. But I would just listen to the radio - Stretch Armstrong and Red Alert - and then I would go hang out with Mayhem, who did the WNYU hip-hop show.

  Mark Ronson

  Cutting, Years, Skills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

  David Wenham

  People, Film, Peter

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• When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldnt play, they could sing.

  Chuck Brown

  Men, Play, Shoes

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• At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

  Lance Armstrong

  Names, People, Lasts

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.

  Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

  Light, Water, Towers

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• I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I think that Louis Armstrong loosened the world, helped people to be able to say "Yeah," and to walk with a little dip in their hip. Before Louis Armstrong, the world was definitely square, just like Christopher Columbus thought.

  Hugh Masekela

  Thinking, Squares, People

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