Teddy Pendergrass Quotes

I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.

Teddy Pendergrass

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• Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Now

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Works

• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Women
  • Government
  • Politics

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• The surface is all you get of me.

  

  Gary Hume
  • You
  • Me
  • Get

• It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Name
  • Own

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Look
  • Terrorism
  • Group

• I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Home
  • Learn

• Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Different
  • Business

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Will
  • Opportunities
  • Without

• I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Bad
  • Night

• Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Respect

• A cook's job in my opinion is to be creative and push the boundaries of their cuisine and never stop experimenting.

  

  Ching He Huang
  • Creative
  • Experimenting
  • Cook's job

• Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to create a park, will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.

  

  John Muir
  • Up
  • Men
  • Power

• Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Power
  • Science

• Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • Men
  • Live
  • Nature

• Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

  

  Om Puri
  • Never
  • Place
  • Fat

• I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Song