Vesta Williams Quotes
Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
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If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with.
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Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.
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I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.
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We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
