LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Donna Summer) Quotes
Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
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I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.
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If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.
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For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.
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I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.
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Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.
