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. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
Carli Lloyd -
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone -
I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
Maceo Parker -
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
Lana Del Rey -
You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
Patrick Kane -
I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
Camilo Villegas
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
Kate Hudson -
My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
Nate Diaz -
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts -
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
Hailey Gates -
I love acting.
Ed Asner
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
Lana Del Rey -
I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
Yancy Butler -
I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
Gary Bauer -
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson -
The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
Najib Razak -
I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
Rafael Nadal
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Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.
Godfrey Gao -
He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
Alan Jackson -
If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!
Paul Walker -
Reading has always been the great love of my life.
Darren Shan -
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
Neil Abercrombie -
I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.
Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips