Toni Braxton Quotes
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
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It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.
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Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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When a parent denies a child its 'parent time,' that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
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I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years. I was off the studio lists. I wasn't getting the roles offered to actors that hadn't done a third of the roles I had done or had the popularity I had.
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My first draft of Marvel Knights 'Black Panther' was not funny at all. They smartly rejected the entire script and counseled me to inject liberal doses of humor into very serious subject matter.
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I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.
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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.
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I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.
