Chaka Khan Quotes
There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
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The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.
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There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
