Roberta Flack Quotes
Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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... and what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions until all you can remember is a name.
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I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don't know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.
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It's funny because it's funny.
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We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.
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Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.
