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Mavis Staples Quotes

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 10, 1939

Topics

Money Purpose People Singing Fame

I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around, and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.

Megan McCafferty

Age Myself Think Find Wonder Go

Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning about China because it's China, and they're big, and they're more concerning. But the best global companies are ones that are nuanced.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Best Think More Open China Big

Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

Sports Me Rest Care Take Care Body

Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.

People American Bad Realize Deal

I come from a family that was very strong, very successful, very bizarre, and terrifically exciting. Being a Korda is something I regard as special - not wonderful, or worthy of a national monument, but special.

Family Strong Special Worthy Being

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Life Death Man Escape Been Whose

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

Marriage History Child People Sex

There's still nothing like a home-cooked meal. Absolutely not.

Nothing Meal Still Like Absolutely

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

Hope Will Never Get Records Even

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Bryant H. McGill

Happiness Great Curiosity Secrets

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.

Apollonius of Tyana

Office Strings May Understood He

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

New York New Done Come Nerd Theater

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