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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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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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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Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
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People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff doesn't make it much more pitiful.
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I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
