Delloreese Patricia Early (Della Reese) Quotes
I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
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The nice thing about doing a pop opera is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of "Why is this person bursting out into song?" because the whole thing is sung.
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All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.
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It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
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Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
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I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.
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I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
