Leontyne Price Quotes

The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.

Leontyne Price

• America
• Black
• Human
• Combination

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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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• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

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• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

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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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• I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.

  

  Kate Williams
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• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
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• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

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• Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

  

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• I want the single player experience.

  

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• For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
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• Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

  

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• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
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• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

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• I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

  

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• I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.

  

  Kristen Wiig
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• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

  

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• And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

  

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• I actually am a down to earth and easy going girl. Not just another model.

  

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• Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
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• The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • America
  • Black
  • Human