Dionne Warwick Quotes
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Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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I love pain. Love pain.
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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She was beautiful when she died-a hundred years ago.
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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
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It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.
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Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses.
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Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.
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I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.
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Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.
