Aretha Franklin Quotes

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Aretha Franklin

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• Gift
• Possible
• Singer

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• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Need

• When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Forever

• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Single

• But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Sad

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Interesting
  • Know

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • True
  • Government
  • Best

• I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Song
  • Creative

• Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Kind
  • Successful

• I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Team
  • Reading

• I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.'

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Soul
  • Success
  • Society

• I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

  

  Dean Norris
  • Job
  • Couple

• I could not riding out alone about my business, but smile out to God in praises, in assurance of victory because God would, by things that are not, bring to naught things that are.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Business
  • Alone

• God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Illness
  • Remind

• What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • God
  • Failure

• We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.

  

  Michael Winter
  • House
  • Letters
  • Bringing

• Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

  

  Aretha Franklin
  • God
  • Gift
  • Possible