Al Jarreau Quotes
It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.
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I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
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We're exploring life without Shaq, ... and enjoying it, too.
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I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.
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I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
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No lady is ever a gentleman.
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It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.
