Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes
The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
Odetta Holmes
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.
Colum McCann
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This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
Lloyd Alexander
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I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.
Cherie Lunghi
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Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The Weeknd
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I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.
Ken Salazar
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The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.
Allyson Felix
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As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.
David Gower
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We ask each other about it in the coach's room every day. What do you think is going to happen? Nobody knows anything. All I know is Lou's got a contract for next year, and all the coaches have contracts, too.
Don Zimmer
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The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
Vincente Minnelli
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The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
Odetta Holmes