Oleta Adams Quotes

There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary changes to take place and for each person to get what is rightfully due.

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• At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Passion
  • Acting
  • First

• Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Me
  • Said
  • Yes

• Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • American
  • War
  • Government

• If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Live
  • Know
  • Stand

• What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.

  

  Ouida
  • Abuse

• There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Dream

• People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Time
  • God
  • Running

• Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Failure

• On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • God
  • Atheist

• For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Long
  • Country
  • Growth

• The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People
  • Different
  • Relationship

• Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Free
  • King

• It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Live

• In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their different political systems and different relationships between the central banks and the fiscal authorities.

  

  Lou Jiwei
  • Different
  • Political

• My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Parents

• It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

  

  John Wooden

• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hatred
  • Affection
  • Human Heart

• It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • World
  • Live
  • Trying

• At my age, I dare say I've kind of established myself, and I don't have to chase a paycheck.

  

  Chris Cooper
  • Age

• Paper has been the evangelist of many of the convictions that shaped history, carrying them to distant lands or simply to a groundswell of people who could never otherwise have absorbed them. Propagandist, tyrant, democratizer, tool, inventor, magician and technician all in one, paper’s power lies in its absence of personality. Quietly, inexpensively and often slowly, it has seeped around the world, and history’s most galvanizing ideas have hitched a lift on its surface.

  

  Alexander Monro
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Paper

• There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary changes to take place and for each person to get what is rightfully due.

  

  Oleta Adams