LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Donna Summer) Quotes
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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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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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.
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The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
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Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
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God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills
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Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.
