Kay Yow Quotes
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
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We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.
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I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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I'm just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else.
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All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
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Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important
