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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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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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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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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For those of us who want to accomplish something for the country, we need to come up with a list ... of anti-spending reforms which are locked into place so we are dramatically lowering the appetite of the federal government over the future.
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Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.
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Because I'm shooting 'The New Normal' and 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' at the same time, so my schedule is double. I leave one show and go and shoot the other. The cameras are with me for, like, every day of my life. So I'm extremely tired.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
