Margaret Whiting Quotes

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

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• Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Fast
  • Champagne

• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Technology

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Why
  • Give
  • Nobody

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Security

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Now
  • Have
  • Behind

• There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Hate
  • Doctors
  • Medication

• He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Intelligent
  • Become
  • Far

• I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Land
  • Boxer

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Being
  • Writer
  • Before

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Age
  • Man
  • Decision

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Voice
  • Vietnam
  • Capitol

• When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Animal

• Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I had a Hebraic wedding in New York, so I'm definitely Jewish.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Wedding

• The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

  

  Margaret Whiting
  • Time