Gladys Knight (Empress of Soul) Quotes
Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
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My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.
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Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.