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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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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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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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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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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Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.
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I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.
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On a little heap of BarleyDied my aged uncle Arly,And they buried him one night;-Close beside the leafy thicket;-There, his hat and Railway-Ticket;-There, his ever-faithful Cricket;-(But his shoes were far too tight.)
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I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.
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'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
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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.
