Teddy Pendergrass Quotes
From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
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Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.
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Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge...the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.
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Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.
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I can't sing or dance.
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Ugliness does not sell.
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I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
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From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.
