Aretha Franklin Quotes
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
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My Only Boss is Money.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
