Edith Piaf Quotes
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I am a just man.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.
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I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.
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I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
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I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
