Gabrielle Burton Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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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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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own.
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You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
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you'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.
