Carole King Quotes
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I just want to do my job.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.
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I've run into women who can be highly problematic, detrimental, and mean, just like I've seen that in men.
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When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.
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It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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You make me feel like a natural man
