Alison Moyet Quotes
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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Winning doesn't come cheaply … you have to pay a big price.
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She was a giant in the 20th century for women, and most significantly was a catalyst for change in the American culture. She defined the problem, and then she had the courage to do something about it.
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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
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I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.
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My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
