Mavis Staples Quotes

When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.

Mavis Staples

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TruthHeartPrayerI AmJoyYou

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

Andrew Lau

SpaceIdeasLongYouTwoShoot

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

Meg White

PeopleMeEnoughChoiceNewAlways

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

Max Lucado

LifeGodPainStoryProblemsThink

I'm aggressive, quite frankly, because Staten Island gets screwed all the time. And if I'm not aggressive, then I won't be successful. That's not being a bad boy. That's doing my job.

Michael Grimm

TimeJobDoingBadBad BoyIsland

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter.

Michael Buble

TimeChanceGrowYouMoreFirst

It's tough to do a romantic scene with someone you don't like. I have been lucky so far.

Sidharth Malhotra

RomanticToughSomeoneYouLucky

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

Trent Reznor

DaySongEnd Of The DayEndYouWay

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

Tom Sizemore

GreatMeFamousMoreMailTell

If you ask me what is going to happen in a month or a year, I can't tell you. We're focused on the present.

Julen Lopetegui

MePresentYearYouFocusedMonth

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

Douglas Coupland

RestaurantEnvironmentEnjoyYouAir

If you can't sell your product, it goes from being an asset to a liability. Learn to sell, partner with someone who can sell, or learn to be poor.

Clay Clark

PartnerLearnSomeoneYouPoorSell

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

Chuck Hagel

WarBelieveYouGoNeverChannels

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