Merry Clayton Quotes
My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
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I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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We are guardedly optimistic if the weather continues to cooperate.
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Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.
Charles B. Rangel -
The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.
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Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
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My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
