Sue Hubbell (Suzanne Hubbell) Quotes
Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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All rappers are princesses like me.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
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I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
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In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.
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In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence.
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Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers.
