Mary Violet Heberden Quotes
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Women just love to shop.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
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It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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The less explaining you do the less people speculate.
