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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I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'
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Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.
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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
