Merry Clayton Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
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I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play.
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A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
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A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.
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To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A really decent god-believer, far from giving thanks for the food and good health and fortune enjoyed by himself and his family and close friends, would surely curse God for his neglect of the hungry, the sick and the tormented, throughout the world.
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Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.
