Loleatta Holloway Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.
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Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
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I never thought of myself as a good singer.
