Rachel Sklar Quotes
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car.
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I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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I don't consider football fun. It's not like a water park or a baseball game.
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Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
