Mahalia Jackson Quotes
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.
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By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.
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I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you.
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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
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And I realized how much more complicated life is without the benefit of magic. Rubbing linseed oil into my blistered hands, I thought wistfully of how magic lets you skip over the steps of things. That is what makes it so appealing. But, I thought, the steps of things are where life is truly found, in doing the day-to-day tasks.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
