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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There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I never tweet, and when I do, it's about some sort of sporting event that I'm watching.
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One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.
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And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.
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Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
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If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
