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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There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.
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I don't worry about alienating fans. I don't think most people these days think of artists as sellouts if they license their music for a commercial or a movie trailer. If anything, fans get psyched when they hear Sleigh Bells on TV or at the movies. As a band who doesn't make money off of record sales it's a great way for us to pay the bills!
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When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.
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I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
