Kate Smith Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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Words and ideas can change or influence the mind just like music can - yes, like a spell. Regarding the effect of my "spells" I think it varies; my music communicates with some, and I think it has had a positive influence on the minds of those who like it. I hope it helped them see the world from a different perspective.
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I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.
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I just can't read music.
