Estelle Quotes
Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
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People want you to fail.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
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Being must be felt. It can't be thought.
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'It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.'
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Be strong to hope, O Heart!Though day is bright,The stars can only shineIn the dark night.Be strong, O Heart of mine,Look towards the light!
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Remember that all is opinion.
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The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
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My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
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Worldwide, our young generation shares the same issues socially and politically.
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I just want to write another record that's as good or better than the one I've already made. That's my main goal, to follow up stronger than before.
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Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.
