Mahalia Jackson Quotes
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Many are called but few get up.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'
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But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
