Al Jarreau Quotes
I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.
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I love ABC Family!
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
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You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big.
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I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.
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Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.
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I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.
