Deniece Williams Quotes
My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic ways of life than to wear something that gives back to charity?
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There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
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I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.
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I'm using more energy than ever.
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I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
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My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.
