Barry White Quotes
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I'm trying my best.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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Life is wrecked by living.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.
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I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
