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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You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.
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At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.
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Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.
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I don't even like parties.
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Lacking a filter, they are on constant sensory overload. In order to cope, they try to shut themselves down and develop tunnel vision and hyperfocus. If they can’t shut down naturally, they may enlist drugs or alcohol to block out the world. The tragedy is that the price of closing down includes filtering out sources of pleasure and joy, as well.
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
