Edwin Starr Quotes

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

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• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Inspired

• Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • History
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • True
  • Myself
  • Afraid

• Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Experience
  • Lucky
  • Very

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Foreign
  • Stunts

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Love
  • Man

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Impact

• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Creation

• You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Acting

• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Silence

• I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Thing

• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hero
  • Dies
  • Till

• I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Life
  • Night
  • Morning

• Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Great
  • Man
  • Gratitude

• Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

  

  L. E. J. Brouwer
  • World
  • Art
  • Evil

• When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Drama

• The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.

  

  James Cromwell
  • World
  • Great

• I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

  

  Edwin Starr
  • Great