Brenda Holloway Quotes

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Brenda Holloway

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If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

Jerome Cavanagh

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Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

Meg Rosoff

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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

John Perry Barlow

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Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I'm going to execute it.

Stephen Curry

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I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.

Stephen Hough

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When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.

Roop Durgapal

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My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Michael Tippett

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When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Ally Condie

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Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

Shakira

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I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

Thomas Griffith

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Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.

Tim Scott

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