Aaliyah Quotes
I have a few childhood nicknames. One is 'Babygirl'. My father gave that to me when I was born. He said, 'I have a beautiful baby girl' and that one stuck with me. A lot of people still call me 'Babygirl'.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
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I don't like talking about music.
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I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.
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With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.
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When you're through changing, you're through.
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I have a few childhood nicknames. One is 'Babygirl'. My father gave that to me when I was born. He said, 'I have a beautiful baby girl' and that one stuck with me. A lot of people still call me 'Babygirl'.
