Sylvia (Sylvia Robinson) Quotes
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'Sylvia
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
Dakota Blue Richards -
I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
Raekwon -
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
Felicity Kendal -
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
Sam Harris -
I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
Octavia E. Butler -
I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
Abigail Breslin -
I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
Orlando Bloom -
Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
Nate Robinson -
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
Carine Roitfeld -
We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
Natalie Babbitt -
The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
Kate Williams -
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
Nana Mouskouri -
I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
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I like entertaining people. I want to make big entertainment.
Elizabeth Banks -
As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
S. Jay Olshansky -
'The House Of Tomorrow' offered such a fantastic script. I couldn't believe that script - it was just so original and unique.
Alex Wolff -
Music's always been a big part of my life.
Brynn Cartelli -
Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
Sylvia