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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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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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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I think the more wholesome things that come back to television, the better off we'll be.
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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
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You don't have to be someone you're not to get someone else to like you.
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While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute presents for children's birthdays.
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Kissinger was, as always, preoccupied with other matters of state and his rather complicated social life.
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It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.
