Anita Baker Quotes
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.
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Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.
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We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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I am proud to support the incredible economics department at the University of Chicago.
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When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'
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Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.
