Thelma Houston Quotes
I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
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If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.
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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.
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I dream, therefore I exist.
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All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.
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My favorite thing in the world was to make people sing - until I made people laugh. Then that became my favorite thing in the world.
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It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.
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There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.
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I like double albums, ... And this was kind of a double album. And with double albums, sometimes you say, 'Well this is a whole lot to process.' But then you listen to it again and you start to develop favorites and it gets a character all its own. And then you think maybe you see this movie later on TV and you start to think, 'Well, you know what? I get it. That all these themes are supposed to be part of a bigger simpler theme.'
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There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.
