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!Mahalia Jackson
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
Pat Brown -
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles -
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
Faith Ford -
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.
Madeleine L'Engle -
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
Wayne Coyne -
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.
Ralph Lauren
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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!
Kate Spade -
In a democracy, power is not permanent.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
Mae Jemison -
Many are called but few get up.
Oliver Herford -
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
Nat King Cole -
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
Maddie Hasson -
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger -
'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.
G. Willow Wilson -
Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
Dana Hussein -
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
Irving Penn -
The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
Carey Mulligan
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In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters
Edgar Degas -
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
Donald Knuth -
I cannot stop them. This is their affection and love and we live for this. And I hope that this love and affection remains with us so that we are inspired to work more and be able to satisfy their desires and expectations.
Amitabh Bachchan -
I give 110 per cent all the time.
Caroline Wozniacki -
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!
Mahalia Jackson