Doris Eaton Travis Quotes
I reached the age of 32 and I took a good look at myself and said, "What's going on here? This is nothing. This is not life". I went back to church and began to and find myself. I got some inner strength from that.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
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I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
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If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
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Being a single woman is like going off to war.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Life is good - we forget that.
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My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.
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Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
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I reached the age of 32 and I took a good look at myself and said, "What's going on here? This is nothing. This is not life". I went back to church and began to and find myself. I got some inner strength from that.
