Robert Dwayne Womack (Bobby Womack) Quotes

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

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• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Hard
  • Come

• I don't think about my fame very much.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Think
  • Fame
  • Very

• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Know
  • Moment

• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Fashion

• I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Remember
  • War
  • Fear

• I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Art
  • Paintings
  • Plague

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Human
  • Values

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Remember
  • Want

• Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Sacrifice

• I live in Paris, yet Monaco, where I spend a lot of time, holds a very special place in my heart.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Time
  • Live
  • Heart

• Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
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