Anita Baker Quotes

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

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• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • See
  • Go
  • Easier

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Enough
  • Call
  • Guess

• I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Real
  • Car
  • Doing

• Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• 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.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Moving
  • Hands
  • Golf

• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Reflection

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Changes
  • Alive

• I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Great
  • Down
  • Dirty

• I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Control
  • Alone

• We all contribute to The National, and it's like a familiar family. Matt is dad, Brian's like the dark horse uncle, Scott's the long-suffering mum, and Aaron and I are the bratty twins.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Long
  • Family
  • Dad

• I was a few months out of office when the invasion of Iraq took place in March 2003. Had I still been governor, I might have been the only one who opposed it. It had to do with the fact that we were lining up our military against that country as an aggressor and an occupier.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Up
  • Country
  • Military

• I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched by the corporate gloss, the veneer of sameness that seems to be spreading across the country.

  

  David Means
  • Country
  • American

• If I were sent to Siberia, it would not surprise me. I would even prefer to just be a maid than go on living like this. You will pay for your apathy.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Pay
  • Surprise
  • Apathy

• I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

  

  Anita Baker
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