Aretha Franklin Quotes

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

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• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Time
  • Live
  • Career

• I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Child

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Arena
  • Park

• I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Stop
  • Right
  • Romantic

• I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Ireland

• Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Voice
  • Everyone
  • Hear

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Country
  • Sincere

• What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Country
  • Morning

• Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Fun

• Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Company
  • Very
  • Geography

• My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Life
  • Parents

• Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

  

  Philip Zimbardo

• My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Fashion
  • Sister
  • Magazines

• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

• It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

  

  Aretha Franklin
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