Dionne Warwick Quotes
People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!
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A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
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Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.
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People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
