Kathleen Battle Quotes
Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
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When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
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In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
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Humans are lazy but not stupid.
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The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
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Dance must have a precision without fault.
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And as for Ken, Mayor Livingstone, I think you have been a very considerable public servant and a distinguished leader of this city.
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It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.
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I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.
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We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.
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Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
