Wilson Pickett Quotes

Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.

Wilson Pickett

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• People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Different
  • High

• My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Torture

• I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • World
  • Stupid
  • Research

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Man
  • Space
  • Nothing

• What makes an officer's job all the more difficult, dangerous, and demanding is that it rests on upholding that sacred trust with citizens that he or she serves. Nevertheless, I ask every officer in Chicago: reflect on your work, your training, your experience and - to be honest - about the fears and frustrations you bring to that job.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • She
  • Experience

• Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Important
  • Know
  • Military

• I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Player
  • Hurt
  • Type

• I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Myself

• Alibaba spends money on improving the products and services, not on kickbacks. That's a good thing. It's called a value system, and because of that, we get more and more small- to medium-sized companies to support us in China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Money
  • Small

• I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Background
  • Observer

• By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Words
  • Horror
  • Express

• I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

  

  Lorde
  • Everything
  • I Love
  • Shopping

• I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

  

  John Calvin
  • Remember
  • Christ
  • Channel

• I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

  

  William Kempe
  • Trying
  • Age
  • Unique

• If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Feel
  • Bones
  • Australian

• This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Reality
  • Summer
  • Lying

• It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Opinion
  • Judgment
  • Wise Men

• Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.

  

  Wilson Pickett
  • Dancing
  • Bones