Bessie Smith Quotes
No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
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Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
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No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
