LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Donna Summer) Quotes
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	I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!   
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	I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.   
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	It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.   
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	There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.   
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	Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.   
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	I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.   
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	I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.   
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	I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.   
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	The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.   
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	I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.   
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	When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.   
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	Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.   
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	He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.   
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	Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.   
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	When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.   
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	I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.   
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	Then you notice likkle carpet burnMy stomach drop and my guts churnYou shrug and it's the worstWho truly stuck the knife in first?I cheated myself like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no goodI cheated myself, like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, yeah you know that I'm no good.   
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	Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.   
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	Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.   
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	One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.   
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	Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man.   
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	Laugh at all you trembled at before.   
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	Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.   
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	Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					