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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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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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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I'm for prayer in schools.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
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People say I'm good at standup. I don't even think I'm that great at standup. I just hit hard. I don't think I'm super technical or anything like that. I got a couple knockouts. I think I just hit hard more than anything.
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I like to look strong and commanding.
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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.
