Oleta Adams Quotes
As a nation we've been faced with so many tragedies since the beginning of this Millennium and I believe we have even more reason to pray. Many people don't feel capable in that area and I wanted to create music that helped them find the words that could bring peace.
Quotes to Explore
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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You face racism in small and large ways.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
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As a nation we've been faced with so many tragedies since the beginning of this Millennium and I believe we have even more reason to pray. Many people don't feel capable in that area and I wanted to create music that helped them find the words that could bring peace.
