Mavis Staples Quotes

There are songs that I have to play!

Mavis Staples

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There are plenty of easy things that you can do from the comfort of your own home to get you started on the path of giving back.

Jenna Morasca

HomePathGivingYouBackComfort

I understand German; I can read German.

Max von Sydow

I CanUnderstandReadGerman

It's part of the culture at ILM and at Lucasfilm that the work is better when you collaborate, you know. There's this culture of open exchange, a wonderful ego-free sharing of ideas and talent.

John Knoll

WorkCultureTalentIdeasBetter

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

John Sexton

SchoolParentsCollegeHigh School

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Stephen Covey

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I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Sue Townsend

LifeLoveAnniversaryHusbandThink

I would change all my individual trophies for that trophy of World Cup champion.

Luka Modric

ChangeWorldChampionTrophyCup

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

Diana Rigg

CareerSayInsideDifficultOut

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

Christopher Walken

BusinessAgePersonalityNew York

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

InspirationalImpossibleLimitsGoing

I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of our youngest grandchildren were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick C.

Ara Parseghian

LifeMeThinkMy LifeGrandchildren

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

Phylicia Rashad

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