Dionne Warwick Quotes
Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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My uncle introduced me to R&B, like Dru Hill, 112 and all those dudes. Eventually, he put me on Omarion's first album, and that was the first album that made me want to start singing.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.
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I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.
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[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
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Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.
