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.

Rita Coolidge

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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.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • Path
  • Classmates

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Parents

• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Know
  • Hate

• I'm curvy.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Curvy

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Love
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Raising

• When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• 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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Happen
  • Injuries

• I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Think
  • Sensible

• I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Serious

• 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.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney

• A veces hallo tan grande a la miseria que temo necesitar de ella.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Hand
  • Style
  • Canvas

• I'm creating my own future.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Future

• If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • People
  • Stop

• Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.

  

  Tom Ridge
  • Record
  • Rhetoric
  • Young Man

• I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Should
  • Become
  • Others

• I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Art
  • Think
  • Ideas

• 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.

  

  Rita Coolidge
  • Singing
  • Become
  • Happened