Ruth Brown Quotes
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
Quotes to Explore
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
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I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
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If it feels like a mistake before you go in, don't go in.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
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Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.
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It's not in my nature to be too literal.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.
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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
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Despite my express wish, I was not left in Chicago, but taken to Paris to live, and I did not see my father for many years. But we never stopped loving each other, and in 1940 he died in my arms in Hollywood, where he had come to be near me at the end.
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
