Cilla Black Quotes
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
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I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.
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I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I always believed I would be a star.
