Ledisi Quotes
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
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I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
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We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.
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Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.
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I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able to evolve - in other words, I was holding the company back. My personal growth enabled the company to evolve.
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A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.
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President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways.
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From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.
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'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.
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I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.
