Cissy Houston Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley -
The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
Camila Alves -
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.
Natalie MacMaster -
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.
K. A. Applegate -
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.
Adam Ostrow -
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
Kate Mosse
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist -
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Ralph Ellison -
We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
Jackie Speier -
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
M. F. K. Fisher -
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.
Camille Claudel -
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.
T. C. Boyle
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
Frances McDormand -
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.
Ralph Ransom -
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty -
I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
Tanya Fischer -
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.
Ed Koch
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By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area.
Enda Kenny -
I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.
Hal Sparks -
The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
The job of media is the accountability of government.
Jeff Zucker -
My children are my whole life.
Cissy Houston