Cissy Houston Quotes
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Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'
Yuvraj Singh -
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas -
Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
Rachael Ray -
I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
Manika -
I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
Caitlyn Jenner
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If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.
Kate O'Mara -
In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.
Dana Plato -
In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
Natasha Leggero -
Tradition has made women cowardly.
Nance O'Neil -
What position didn't I play last season?
Aaron Hill -
But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.
Kate Atkinson
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When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.
Lara Stone -
The best gift an educator can give is to get someone to become self-reflective.
Randy Pausch -
The essential purpose of Christianity was to transform human society into the kingdom of God by regenerating all human relations and reconstituting them in accordance with the will of God. ...I have never met with any previous attempt to give a satisfactory historical explanation of this failure.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
Agatha Christie? We go back years, me and Ag. She's a … she's just a … she's dead, isn't she?
Eddie Izzard -
In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture - then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else
Pablo Picasso -
I am very happy with what I see. The grey, the not-so grey and the camouflaged That's life. One has to live with it.
Amitabh Bachchan
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In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.
Sigmund Freud -
And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
Sharon Bolton -
I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them.
James Murphy -
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
George Bernard Shaw -
You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.
Cissy Houston