Gladys Knight (Empress of Soul) Quotes
I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.
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Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?
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There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.
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I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.
