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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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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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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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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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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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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I've written with people who aren't like me, then I've written with people who totally get it. It's like a blind date, and you never know what's going to happen. But it's really cool because they learn from you, and you learn a little bit from them. And sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't.
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People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.
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People have times when they want to go through different looks.
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There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
