Mahalia Jackson Quotes
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I like music a lot.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.
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Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
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I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
