Chaka Khan Quotes
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.
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My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.
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Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.
