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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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
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This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.
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The best things in life are free
