Mahalia Jackson Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.
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I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable. ... It is not true. ... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
