LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Donna Summer) Quotes
If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.
Quotes to Explore
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
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I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
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I want to work with Cherry Jones.
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I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples' homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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I'm more of a people pleaser.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives to you.
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Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.
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I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.
Colson Whitehead -
The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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We thought it was a good song; 96 Tears was a collaboration of the whole band to create the music, and Question Mark wrote the lyrics.
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Winning in my business is everything.
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If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.
