Peabo Bryson Quotes
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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My first meal when I wake up is five boiled eggs, egg whites, and a slice of whole wheat bread.
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I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
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Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.
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If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
