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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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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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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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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Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.
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Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.
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I said ... on Tuesday we are not saying anything on or off the record. That remains the position.
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I wanted to make an album that was painfully honest, like (Bruce) Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love.'
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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
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As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.
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My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.
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I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
