Tina Weymouth Quotes
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
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It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
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I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the outside, but is also good and noble on the inside in terms of character and in terms of purpose. And I think that's a fine description of the friendship that exists between the Greek people and the American people.
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The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.
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Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.
