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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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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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.
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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.
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I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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.
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God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
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Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
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For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
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The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.
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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.
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I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.
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There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle.
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You're just one of the guys who fills a suit, and that's what's drilled into you by the record company and the management - 'You're lucky to have it. Now shut your mouth.' I get where that comes from, but it takes time to shake it off.
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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.
