Sylvia (Sylvia Robinson) Quotes
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
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Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.
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This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.
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When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
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When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
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What good is it? All this, what good is it? -Mariam
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As for the Soothsayer, although I am certain no one feels the true beauties of that work better than I, I am far from finding these beauties in the same places as the infatuated public does. They are not the products of study and knowledge, but rather are inspired by taste and sensitivity.
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Cuando me conformo con nada es cuando me conformo de todo.
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I have my own personal collection of Super Soakers in various sizes.
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Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
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I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.
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2008 was a good - a very successful year for Volkswagen.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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Don't waste your crazy!
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I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
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Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go.
