Rita Coolidge Quotes
When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I'm curvy.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.
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I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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A veces hallo tan grande a la miseria que temo necesitar de ella.
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I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.
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If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
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My favourite animals are dogs.
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I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.
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It is utterly asinine that people continually go to comedy shows without bothering to see if their sensibilities line up with the comedians.
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In the years between 'Afterlight' and 'Legacy,' we see a Zu who has watched all of her older friends head out into the world to do meaningful work while she's made to wait and hang back because of her age. It reinforces a feeling in her that she's falling further and further behind and won't ever catch up to them.
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I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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We got famous off singing about a chicken.
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'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
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When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.
