Tionne Watkins Quotes
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I only listen to Lil Wayne.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
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You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
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The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.
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Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
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What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
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There's vultures out here. You need to listen and learn.
