Cassandra Wilson Quotes
There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
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In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping kids with reading or math. But we would also do plays, learn about music... We were doing lots of fun stuff, but that was such hard work.
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Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.
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The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house All that cold, cold, wet day.
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Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
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There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
