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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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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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 think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans.
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
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Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.
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Nobody wants to get into controversies, especially in the film industry. I do not wish to be a controversial girl. But sometimes you have to take tough decisions that might eventually help your career.
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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.
