Cissy Houston Quotes

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

Cissy Houston

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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 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

• 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 have always felt that it is a task that you are given, and that you have it as long as you live. That is my fundamental view. It is an integral part of the job that you have it for life.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Now if there's a smile on my face,It's only there tryin' to fool the public,But when it comes down to foolin' you;Now honey, that's quite a different subject.But don't let my glad expressionGive you the wrong impression.Really I'm sad.I'm sadder than sad.You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad.Like a clown I pretend to be glad.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Sad

• Don't be afraid to show your light.. If it ends up being too much for people.. tell them to wear sunglasses!

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • People
  • Up
  • Light

• Her questions about whether Palmer would have raped her if she hadn’t been taking a forbidden bath on the job, if she’d remembered to lock the bathroom door, if she had tried to fight despite his knife—all her secret worry that it was these mistakes, her mistakes, that had caused her rape—were revealed to her as utter and total bullshit. If she’d been strutting down the street buck-naked, he didn’t have a right to touch her. No. If that woman across the street told her husband he was the worst fuck in history and gave him dog food for dinner, he didn’t have a right to hit her. No. Just because women were blamed for everything but good luck didn’t give nobody a right to do them wrong. And it didn’t mean they were supposed to take it when they were done wrong. All this woman-hurting shit had to stop. “Stop!”

  

  BarbaraNeely
  • Job
  • Fight
  • Secret

• I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Real

• I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky.

  

  Dean Cain
  • People

• It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Earth
  • Scripture

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

  

  Cissy Houston