R. T. Kendall Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.
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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
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People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.
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Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.
