Isaac Hayes Quotes
All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.
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Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.
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Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
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You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
