Elliott Yamin Quotes
When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.Elliott Yamin
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
Garry Shandling -
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
Rachel Dratch -
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
Usain Bolt -
My work was entirely nonfiction.
Laura Hillenbrand -
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Wayne Dyer -
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox -
On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
Nathan Deal -
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
Dan Fogelberg -
I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
Pat Metheny -
I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.
Dan Marino
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
Adam Mansbach -
It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
Wanda Jackson -
There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
Rachel Roy -
Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
Caitlin Moran -
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Wadada Leo Smith -
I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
Karrie Webb
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
Naomi Campbell -
I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.
Janis Ian -
God doesn't believe in the easy way.
James Agee -
I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
Jack Buck -
I'm always trying to switch voices and genres.
Colson Whitehead -
When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.
Elliott Yamin