Vanessa Williams Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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I love the French horn.
