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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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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Doubt is important because it suggests progress. Total certainty can mean there's no assessment of things. Doubt, if you don't panic, can allow newness to come in and challenge something that's an established mode.
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I don't regret anything, because I feel better every year, and if I'd done something different, maybe I wouldn't. I'm more of a whole person, the older I get.
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I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.
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Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
