Mavis Staples Quotes
I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.Mavis Staples
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
Patricia Sun -
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln -
They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
Omar Sharif -
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker -
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
Ramez Naam
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
Adam Clarke -
As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
Manti Te'o -
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
Famke Janssen -
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro -
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
Ira Sachs
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
Ted Dexter -
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
Rachel Nichols -
Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
Iman -
I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
Magnus Larsson -
I did not come to NASA to make history.
Sally Ride
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You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.
George Harrison The Beatles -
Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
Haruki Murakami -
From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
Lee Smolin -
Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
Andrew Lo -
The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
Penn Jillette -
I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.
Mavis Staples