BeBe Winans Quotes
I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
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The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
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Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time.
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Time will heal everything.
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My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
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I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.
