Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes
I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
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The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or the artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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Customer-centricity is unbelievably important.
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Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.
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There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.
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Life doesn't come at you. It comes from you.
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That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.
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You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.
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My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.
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I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.
