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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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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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 have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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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 did two master's degrees - aeronautics and astronautics, and the second one was technology and policy. That taught me how to think about issues in science and technology as they relate to the general public.
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I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.
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It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
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You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
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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.
