Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.
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Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.
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Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.
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'It is what you believe that translates in the life you live.'
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Twenty kilometers. At an average speed of 120 klicks per hour, we should cover the distance in ten minutes. Ten freezing, adrenaline-pumping, gorge-rising, terror-beating-against-the-ribs, react-in-a-microsecond-or-die seconds.
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'Flotsam floats when all is sunk. Jetsam thrown isn't just junk. Coughs and colds and bright red sores Waiting for us, so bend yer oars!'
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
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The fantastic thing about 'Jasper Jones' is that although it's set in 1969, the themes are still so topical. We're still struggling with racism and sexism and domestic violence and abuse.
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Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.
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School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.
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