Rita Coolidge Quotes
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Sometimes compromise is painful.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
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Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
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Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.
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When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.
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I'm just letting it go. I'm swinging at what I need to swing at. And when the time comes, I'll just do what I always done. It's just a matter of going out and feeling better. I feel like I'm involved in spring training and when that's the case I'm going to be myself.
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When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'
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I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.
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To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.
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The past depends on the angle from which it is seen and from which it has been lived.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.
