Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes
If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.
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Isolationism is over.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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Making music is fantastic.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
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The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.
