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Della Reese Quotes

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

Della Reese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

White Choir Background Built Singers

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

Robert Goulet

Good Time Old Friends Green Friends

You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.

Matt Lauer

Today World Think You Living Two

To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.

Tom Stoppard

Love Distinction Hardly

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

Robert D. Kaplan

Week Year United United States Given

I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.

Rodman Philbrick

Influence Book Weird Career Find

You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture focus.

Mike McCarthy

Culture Focus Day You Go Build

Television is hard work. It's all hard work. Theatre is hard work. I tell you, I have bruises from changing backstage. Those quick changes are really difficult.

Loretta Swit

Work Hard Work Theatre You Difficult

In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.

Jon Ronson

God People Voice Powerful Early Say

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

Common

Life Heart Struggle Soul People Saw

If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.

Brock Osweiler

Great You Out Beat NFL Going

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

Portia de Rossi

Work Love Driving Enjoy Acting Up

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

Peter Baynham

Disagreement Aims