Sarah Vaughan Quotes
They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.
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I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.
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People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.
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Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
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I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.
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I don't give any merit to criticism. 'Country Girls (Shake it for Me),' I can see where people view that as sexist, but I just view that as having fun.
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I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
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If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
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I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.
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They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.
