Jerry Leiber Quotes
I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.
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I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
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When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.
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Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won't we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from his throne. Birds.
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I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.
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I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people.
