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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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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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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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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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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I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
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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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Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.
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Home is where the heart is, and my heart will forever be in Cleveland.
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We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
