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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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 think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.
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If you're making a salad of any kind, cut the herbs, stems and all, and toss them into your mixed greens salad, a Romaine salad, iceberg, Bibb - it just adds a special touch.
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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!
