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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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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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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Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
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Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
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There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
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The IMPAC is a terribly important award.
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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.
