Brownie McGhee Quotes
From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.
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The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
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We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.
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My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.
