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Jessye Norman Quotes

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1945

Topics

Time Caring World Political Never

President el-Sisi of Egypt took over in a very complicated environment. He needed to give a new direction. It is quite a difficult job.

Job Direction Environment Complicated

There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.

Work Hard Work Success Business Hard

I was driving to school at Reseda High School - I was a junior, and it was early 1956. I had a '49 Ford. I was listening to the country station, and 'Folsom Prison Blues' comes on... It didn't sound like the stuff I was hearing on the pop stations.

School Listening High School Prison

There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.

Time Thought Acting Professional Big

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

Think Push You Try Little Deeper

All standards are double standards.

Standards Double

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Depression Parents College Born Poor

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Strength Beautiful Strong Think You

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

Love Falling In Love You Falling

There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.' And then it's like, 'No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.'

Queen People Back Gay Too Much Kind

I treat my cat like she's my therapist or something, because I talk to her all the time, and as she's gotten older, she talks back. It's pretty funny.

Funny Time Treat Back Talk She

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

Sports Peace Sports Fan Fan Marches

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