Al Jarreau Quotes

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

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• I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Once

• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.

  

  Verite
  • Story
  • Start
  • Sound

• We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Wind
  • Solar

• The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Matter

• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Community
  • New York

• I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • India
  • Global

• In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Present

• Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Bad
  • Ignorance
  • Prejudice

• I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • City
  • New York

• I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Rest

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Live
  • Continue
  • Finished

• Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Beginning
  • Moon

• That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Live