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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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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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
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Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.
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I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
