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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I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.
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I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.
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I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.
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Sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to keep people entertained because I'm just making music for my lifestyle and for my people who live my lifestyle. We forget that there's a world waiting on us.
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I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.
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Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
