Cissy Houston Quotes

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

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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
  • Why
  • Best
  • Thought

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• 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
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fighting

• 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
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Cooking

• I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.

  

  Manika
  • Night
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Better

• 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
  • Why
  • She
  • Remember

• 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
  • Opinion
  • Body
  • Gay

• In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • General
  • Vice
  • Comedians

• Tradition has made women cowardly.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Women
  • Made
  • Tradition

• What position didn't I play last season?

  

  Aaron Hill
  • Play
  • Season
  • Last

• 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
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• 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
  • People
  • Remember
  • End

• 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
  • God
  • Society
  • Purpose

• Agatha Christie? We go back years, me and Ag. She's a … she's just a … she's dead, isn't she?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • She

• 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
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Picture

• 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
  • Life
  • Live
  • Happy

• I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Musicians

• I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Support
  • Band

• But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • World
  • Art

• I've worked with children all my life.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Life
  • Children

• I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.'

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Funny

• You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

  

  Cissy Houston