Jessye Norman Quotes
It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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I'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am.
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I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.
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It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
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I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.
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It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.
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It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.
