Joan Armatrading Quotes
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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People work hard.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.
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A guy my size needs a tremendous amount of protein on a daily basis, just to maintain peak size, strength, and performance. Basically, that means six or seven small meals a day, so I depend on protein supplementation.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
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Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.
