Mahalia Jackson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
-
There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
-
The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
-
Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
-
My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
-
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
-
I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
-
My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
-
As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
-
I try to get in some extra carbohydrates and protein the night before and during my pre-match meal. I also eat about 200 calories right after to help rebuild my muscles.
-
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
-
It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
-
I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
-
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
-
Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
-
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
-
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
-
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
-
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
-
I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.
-
I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
-
Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
-
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
-
Without a song, each day would be a century.
