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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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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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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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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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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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
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I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.
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The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of 'fatalism.'
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The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
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People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.
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Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.
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A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
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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.
