Raphael Saadiq Quotes

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

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• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Children
  • Career
  • Small

• It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  

  Barber Conable
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Will

• Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • Romantic
  • Belong

• You give the money where you want it.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Money
  • Want
  • You

• I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Power
  • Rock
  • Star

• Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Eyes

• If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Work
  • War
  • Peace

• There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Attention

• She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• The world is now rapidly advancing in light, in knowledge, in power to use the infinite gifts that the Creator has hidden in nature; but hidden only to stimulate and reward our seeking. Every man can help in this grand progress,-if not by research and positive thought-power, at least by grateful acceptance and realization of what is gained. Look forward!

  

  Elisha Gray
  • World
  • Power
  • Help

• True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Friends
  • True

• When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

  

  Matt Lucas
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Teenager

• I love the deadpan. It's such a strong go-to. It lets the audience make their own decisions about what you're thinking.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Football
  • Training

• I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me, because I am totally appreciative and I like my fans!

  

  Jill Sobule

• I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• I LOVE Taylor Swift's 1989. I think it's really cool at the moment that the production on her record is just as strong as the writing. I like the fact that the early nineties sound seems to have come back around.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Writing
  • Strong
  • Cool

• Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • World

• It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • Up
  • True
  • Culture

• It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Water
  • Generation
  • Skis

• I sat in my studio and painted, and did not need Nature as a prompter. I only had to immerse myself in myself, pray, and prepare my soul to a state of religious awareness. I painted many, many 'Faces'.

  

  Alexej von Jawlensky
  • Soul
  • Faces
  • Studio

• I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

  

  Raphael Saadiq
  • Soul