Leontyne Price Quotes
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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I'm not a control freak.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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Use it or lose it.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
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I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.
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Be black, shine, aim high.
