Mahalia Jackson Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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You have to be! You might get shot!
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
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No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly."
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
