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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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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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.
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The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.
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I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
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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.
