Tionne Watkins Quotes
Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them.
Quotes to Explore
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I write novels and other things.
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It's hard to make small investments when you're a billion-dollar fund.
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If I worked in a bank as a teller, there wouldn't be girls lined up outside of where I work when I'm done.
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It was pretty difficult to watch for a while. We collected ourselves and played. Full-court pressure is not an easy thing to do. We must have given up five or six baskets.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
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Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them.
