Dionne Warwick Quotes
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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Education is an admirable thing.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.
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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.