Leontyne Price Quotes

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

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• I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

  

  Viktor Orban
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  • Islam

• Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
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• For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Funny
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• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
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• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Father
  • North Carolina

• I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Care

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
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• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Rock

• I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Rock
  • Star

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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  • Up
  • She

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
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• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
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• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Art
  • Business
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• Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Together

• It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • Nice
  • Taken
  • Independent

• Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

  

  Artur Rodzinski
  • World
  • Great

• The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Great

• Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

  

  Leontyne Price
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