Carole King Quotes
I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
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The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.
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I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.
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The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.
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I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
