Dionne Warwick Quotes

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
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• We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.

  

  Rachel True
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• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

  

  Gail Porter
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• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
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• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
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• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

  Oscar Robertson
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• I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

  

  Carly Schroeder
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• MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

  

  Karlie Kloss
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• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

  

  Walter Winchell
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• Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.

  

  Jerry Lewis
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• The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
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• I'm unemployable in any other capacity.

  

  Barry Unsworth
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• I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

  

  Jami Attenberg

• I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

  

  Dionne Warwick
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