Anita Baker Quotes
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
Quotes to Explore
-
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
-
I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
-
Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
-
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
-
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
-
I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
-
I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
-
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
-
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
-
Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
-
We should all love animals.
-
I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
-
I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
-
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
-
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
-
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
-
I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
-
I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
-
Be empowered as a female, as a woman. Don't apologize. Don't lose yourself in another person's life.
-
I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'
-
I remember my father didn't say very much – he was a very laconic man. When he'd go to a party, he would become very animated. My mother would say – 'Look at him. He never says a word at home and look at him now.' This is how we all are.
-
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
