Leontyne Price Quotes
If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
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I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.
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I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me
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When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?
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If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
