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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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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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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People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
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I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.
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Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
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One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.
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The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
