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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Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.
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People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
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I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.
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As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.
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Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!
