Fantasia Barrino Quotes
I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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There are good wrestling journalists and bad wrestling journalists. That's for sure.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
