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 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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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 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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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows.
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Theological or anti-theological argument to prove or disprove the existence of a deity seems to me to occupy itself largely with skating among the difficulties caused by our making a fetish of this word existence.
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I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.
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When the Manufacturing Capitalist of Europe shall advert to the many important advantages, which have been intimated, in the Course of this report, he cannot but perceive very powerful inducements to a transfer of himself and his Capital to the United States.
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Our goal is to really have young women of color embrace the tech marketplace and the tech innovation space as both leaders and creators.
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I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?
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I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.
