Nell Carter Quotes
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I know all the critics.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.
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Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?
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Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
