Ann Wilson Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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I'm just not very funny.
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No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
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I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.
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Touring is a tough business.
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The first steps of the slaveholder to justify by argument the peculiar instutitions is to deny the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence. He denies that all men are created equal. He denies that he has inalienable rights.
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Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times better than a man had to be.
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In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.
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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
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I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.
