Cissy Houston Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
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What you write chooses you.
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My children are my whole life.
