Susannah McCorkle Quotes

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

Susannah McCorkle

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • School
  • Character
  • You

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Country
  • Society
  • Political

• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Will
  • Others
  • Himself

• That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Cute
  • Lana Del Rey

• I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Love
  • Night

• To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Fight
  • Self

• For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Cool

• I never like seeing myself on screen.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Seeing

• Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Small
  • Lies
  • Beach

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's sexual affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• They can't ignore us, and they can't put us down. Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be a fascist state.

  

  Cindy Sheehan
  • God
  • Ignore

• One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Fire
  • Cold

• If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Nice

• I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Job

• I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Quality
  • Pride

• In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we've accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• There have indeed been civilizations upon your planet that understood as well as you, and without your

  

  Jane Roberts

• I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

  

  Jennifer Doudna
  • World
  • Desire
  • Motivated

• I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

  

  Lisa Bonet
  • Art
  • Career
  • Desire

• There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Dream
  • Desire
  • Mission

• I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

  

  Susannah McCorkle
  • Desire
  • Record
  • Singer