Marian Anderson Quotes
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.
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The angel is actually the message himself. His appearance is the message that heaven is intensely concerned with us, and that God cares for us like a father for his children.
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The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere.
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A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
