Betty Wright (Bessie Regina Norris) Quotes
I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done with the music, it's amazing.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
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It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.
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When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.
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I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.
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I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done with the music, it's amazing.
