Mavis Staples Quotes
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina -
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Ida Lupino -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman -
We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
S. Truett Cathy -
As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
Manny Montana -
Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
Jack McBrayer
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
Washed Out -
The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
Dan Wheldon -
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
Walt Mossberg -
I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
Adam McKay
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
Garret Dillahunt -
We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
J. B. Pritzker -
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo -
I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
Becky G -
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla -
Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
Xavier Niel
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'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
Kid Cudi -
At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.
Dalai Lama -
Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones -
You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.
Mavis Staples