Robert Dwayne Womack (Bobby Womack) Quotes
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I will keep working hard!
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.
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I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.
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I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.
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I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.
