Mavis Staples Quotes

There are songs that I have to play!

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• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • She

• I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • She
  • Girl
  • Feel

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Famous
  • Made
  • Iceland

• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Men
  • Women
  • Support

• I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Day
  • Lunch
  • Chicken

• It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Crazy
  • Doing
  • Old

• I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Doing

• It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Style
  • Season

• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

  

  Ovid
  • Born
  • Praise
  • Ancient

• It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Where
  • Workers
  • Sugar

• It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Great
  • Long
  • Love

• You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Friends
  • Change

• Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Management
  • Short

• After the first million, money isn't important.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Important
  • Money
  • First

• Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Financial
  • Management

• Jack Harkness: There you go! I can taste it! Oestrogen. Definitely oestrogen. Take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle. Feminizes the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again.

  

  Rain
  • Up
  • Water
  • Sky

• I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Want
  • Decision
  • Eating

• When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• There are songs that I have to play!

  

  Mavis Staples