Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
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Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake. For me, it would be more than an honor to work with these talented musicians.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
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I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
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I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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Sam is a repetitive, comic process that merely marks time: he gets nowhere, but then he doesn’t want to get anywhere. Although there is no possibility of any real change in Sam, he never stops changing: Sam stays there inside Sam, getting less and less like the rest of mankind and more and more like Sam, Sam squared, Sam cubed, Sam to the nth.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
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A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.
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He is so vain that he wants to figure in history as the settler of all the great questions; but a Parliamentary constitution is not favorable to such ambitions; things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Happiness worth having is the warm glow that comes from investing ourselves in the world around us, come what may. It cannot be passively consumed or gulped down like a sugary drink. Happiness must be created by own ingenuity.
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I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
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The true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
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People always want to doubt you.
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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
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I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.
