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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Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.
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But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.
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Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
