Al Jarreau Quotes
I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
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At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I've worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and essential contribution they are making to our mission.
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For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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Ut cuique homini res parata est, firmi amici sunt : si res labat, itidem amici collabascunt. Res amicos invenit.
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I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.
