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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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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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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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
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A box of spaghetti can take seven minutes to cook, and you can make a sauce at that time with perhaps garlic, olive oil, and zucchini. Then you've got yourself a complete meal. The whole thing shouldn't take more than half an hour.
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The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
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When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
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We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they've had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really, no text is worth dying for; that is our message to young people. And this is such a new phenomenon when you look at the number of texts and how they've increased exponentially in just the last few years.
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People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
