Ledisi Quotes
I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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Bullies always have another target.
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My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
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I can't do it, and as for you Can you in good conscience even ask me to? 'Cause what do you care about the great divide As long as you come down on the winner's side?
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
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The creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.
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I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.
