Luther Vandross Quotes
All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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A smile is the universal welcome.
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I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.
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My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.
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Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.
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My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.
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All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.
