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.
Dionne Warwick
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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
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
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
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
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson
I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
Carly Schroeder
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
Karlie Kloss
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco
I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Walter Winchell
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt
You have to be selfish to be an actor.
Charles Dance
Television and newspapers show people's lives at a certain point. But novels tell you what happened after the riot, what happened when everybody went home.
Nadine Gordimer
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I’m junk but I’m still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Leonard Cohen
The funniest thing is that now I know what reverse spam is. You know you get spam from people saying, 'Can you invest in this or that?' People are now e-mailing me saying, 'Oh my God, can I invest in your company?' It's a reverse solicitation of money.
Jefferson Han
For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.
Usain Bolt
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
