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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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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A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!
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But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.
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When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy of the past. And so it's something that needs to be reestablished.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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I can't dance.
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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.
