Leontyne Price Quotes
If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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This bikini made me a success.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'
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If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
