Frankie Ballard Quotes
I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'
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I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.
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I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
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I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.
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I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.
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I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.
