Betty Wright (Bessie Regina Norris) Quotes
There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.
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I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.
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Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.
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There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
