Rita Coolidge Quotes
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
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Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.
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I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.
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eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
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No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.
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Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
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I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
