Dionne Warwick Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
-
We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
-
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
-
When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
-
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
-
I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
-
Politics is not an exact science.
-
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
-
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.
-
I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
-
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.
-
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.
-
With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
-
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
-
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
-
Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
-
My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
-
I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
-
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
-
Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
-
All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.
-
But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.
-
It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.
