Keala Settle Quotes
I used to be a pop singer; well, not used to be. I am an R&B singer. My emphasis was on Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.
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It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Nor is it a matter for wonder that the good do not appear herded in great thongs. First because specimens of great goodness are rare, secondly, because they avoid the great crowd of the more thoughtless and keep themselves at leisure for the contemplation of what nature has to show.
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I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, 'Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.'
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I used to be a pop singer; well, not used to be. I am an R&B singer. My emphasis was on Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin.
