Dionne Warwick Quotes
People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Justice is revenge.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I'm not a sun person.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
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I always lamented that I wasn't a writer during the late '60s and the early '70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people.
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
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It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.
