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Jessye Norman Quotes

My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and that we would simply have to work harder in order to show that.

Jessye Norman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Good Daily Parents Earth Said

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

Jim Wallis

God Evil World Place Dangerous Now

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

Joe Torre

Broken Organization Feel Fortunate

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

Jeff Nichols

Love Marriage Commitment People Over

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

Roger Ebert

Baby Think Better You Reason Plot

I've never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it's all drag.

RuPaul

Think Wall Uniform Person Dressed

There are people who believe that a Dolce & Gabbana T-shirt is more stylish than a supermarket one, and there are people who believe the opposite. There is room for everyone.

Domenico Dolce

People Believe Stylish More T-Shirt

I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

Dolly Parton

Short Big Watch Because Weight Just

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

Douglas Wilder

Dress Black Enough You Say Way

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

Doris Lessing

Wisdom Beginning Legacy Story End

When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that plants were so beautiful. When I am studying plants, I feel like I am talking with some kind of supernatural life, like I am talking with someone who does not speak.

Corneille Ewango

Life Beautiful I Am Plants Plant

Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle.

Chris Milk

Me Reality Place Young Old Years

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

Brie Larson

Love Happiness Sadness Loss You Kid