Gladys Knight (Empress of Soul) Quotes
Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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Sure, Tod's makes shoes and bags. But we make them using leather, which is a living substance to me. And behind each shoe and bag, which in itself may be attractive and useful and comfortable to carry and wear, there is this Italian spirit, this Italian dream.
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I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
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Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!
