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Della Reese Quotes

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 6, 1931 - November 19, 2017

Topics

People Sleeping Mean Hungry Streets

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Architecture Body Know Want Human

I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

Creative Process Idiot Lazy Aspire

Wrigley Field was built and designed at a time when people got to the ballpark by trolley, train, and horse cart.

Time People Horse Train Got Cart

I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.

Me I Can Know Never Jokes Tell

One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic.

Day Job Boss Me Someone Back

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Christian Devil You Last Wants

I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.

Jason Henderson

Book Kindergarten Monsters Started

Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.

Beginning Preparation Start Magic

Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It's an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say.

Opportunity Stress Amazing Judge Ice

I think the first time 'white' was used was in the 1600s. Generally, we were described by where we came from... All of a sudden, this word 'white' came through, and now everyone is going for their own sense of power... to figure out who's on top.

Dennis Haysbert

Power Time Think White Now Top

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

Peace War Scars Veterans Day Bear

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Moment Experience Focus Forward End

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