Diana Ross Quotes
I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.
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I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., then a conservative, provincial city. Anglophilia was the first foreign language I was exposed to. Or maybe it was a way of one-upping the local white people. Or maybe it was an early manifestation of homohood.
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I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.
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Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you. -Raphael
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I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
