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Aretha Franklin Quotes

Certainly, gospel was my background - is my background.

Aretha Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Background Gospel Certainly

I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

Grandchildren Mean Ask Shade Does

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Writing Rest Think Fiction Get Only

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

Eyes Judge You Know Clean Tennis

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

Positive Culture Motherhood Thinking

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

Love Yourself Space Climb Story You

It's like I tell everybody, if you get a chance to win the Royal Rumble or the King of the Ring back when they had it, that means you're gonna get a push. You getting an opportunity at something big, and it can really set up your future for you. So if you're that guy, boy, it's pressure.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Future Opportunity King Win Chance

I like a girl who can be a girl but also ready to play basketball.

Girl Basketball Ready Play Who Like

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Smart Think Why Up Gain Something

White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

White Consciousness Conservatives

I pay attention to the sun. I've worn sunglasses while I play, for years, and apply sunscreen. No matter where I'm playing, there's a rain suit in my bag, too.

Louis Oosthuizen

Rain Sun Sunglasses Bag Attention

I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody.

Diego Klattenhoff

Myself Know Honest To Be Honest

Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.

Girl Beautiful Great People Think

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