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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It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
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If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.
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From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.
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It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.
