Luther Vandross Quotes
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
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We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, 'smoked salmon and Bach.' (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)
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At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird's cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind.
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The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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A ring is a halo on your finger.
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Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
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I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.
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The best things in life are free
