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Aretha Franklin Quotes

I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

Aretha Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1942 - August 16, 2018

Topics

Music Like Some Beyonce

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.

Walk People Achieve Why Understand

I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.

Love Today Song Bad Down Three

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Together Simple Structure Basic

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Family School Parents Me Law Choose

I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

Stephen Baldwin

Think Common Sense Just Because Mean

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

Morning Eyes People World Television

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

Relax Meeting Relaxation Bars Main

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

People Enjoy Know More Pleasure Out

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

Mike Krzyzewski

Failure Good Hope Win Winning Serve

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Michael Ondaatje

Light Research You Know Difficult

When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange.

College Me Friends Strange Even

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

Music Time Me Growing Up Growing Up

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