Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I want to win football games.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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You're only as good as your last haircut.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
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I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
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I knew I wasn't going to write a record as soon as I got signed, because I hadn't had any life experiences. I was still at school, and I wasn't going to write about that.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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Stat magni nominis umbra.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb.
