Anita Baker Quotes
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
V. S. Naipaul
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
Rachel Dratch
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
Vanessa Hudgens
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
Karel Capek
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
Rainn Wilson
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Francesco Guicciardini
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
Nancy Reagan
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
Randeep Hooda
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
Karen O
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
Randy West
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Randall Terry
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
Patrick Modiano
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
Rachel Tucker
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
Tana French
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
Tarja Halonen
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
Queen Latifah
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South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.
Ice Cube
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Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.
Thomas Hood
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I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life and death is going on there. And it's moment-by-moment, and it's packed with energy. And even though you think you know what a witness is going to say, you can be wrong. Witnesses surprise you.
Marcia Clark
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
Angela Duckworth
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We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
Joel Salatin
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If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
Anita Baker