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.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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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.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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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.
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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.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.
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It's not a panacea: there are problems in the world that technology can't fix. You can't fix water shortages. You can't storm a Ministry of the Interior with a cell phone. You can't magically create leaders and institutions overnight. You can't eat it. You can't shield a bullet.
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I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.
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Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.
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The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.
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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.
