Yolanda Adams Quotes
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.
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I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
