Anita Baker Quotes

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

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• I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Music
  • Cool
  • Couple

• Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Love
  • Love Is

• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Great
  • Kids
  • You

• My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Problems
  • Lifestyle
  • Breathing

• I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Always
  • Fight
  • See

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Audience
  • Said
  • Reach

• For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Long
  • Women

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mean
  • Traditions
  • Cultural

• My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Favorite

• When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Story

• 'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Me
  • Play
  • Language

• 'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • American

• Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Free
  • Failure

• Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Soul

• Some artists are happy doing the same thing again and again, but my favorite artists are the ones who evolve and grow, and I want to be one of them.

  

  James McCartney
  • Happy

• That’s because you can’t hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It’s different with grown folks, we-

  

  Harper Lee
  • Different
  • Mind

• Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Simple
  • Wonder
  • Spring

• I feel very well and I’m very happy to be here. It’s an honour for me to represent this club and a dream come true.

  

  Frankie Banali
  • Club
  • Represent
  • Honour

• I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • School
  • High

• We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Women
  • Money
  • Single

• Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

  

  Anita Baker