Aretha Franklin Quotes

'Rocking With Leroy' used to come on when I would come in from school. It was a very, very big R&B broadcast of the day when I was a young girl. And I would come in and put my books down, lie down on the floor, and listen to 'Rocking With Leroy.'

Aretha Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

Jerry Reed

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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

Stephen Sondheim

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I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

Tom Ford

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The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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You gotta step up your bars! Look, I run two labels. I sing. I dance. I don't spend all my time rapping.

Jay Park

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I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic, but it's true.

Clint Smith

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I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

Colin Firth

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My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.

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The takeover of the U.S. House by Republicans could prompt a revival of the fight for additional funding for the Marietta-built F-22 stealth fighter. This isn't just for the sake of home-cooking, but also for the sake of the country.

Phil Gingrey

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I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

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I love Italy. This is the country that made me famous, and I would love to stay in Serie A.

Paulo Dybala

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The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism. It provides a forum where sovereign states can come together to share burdens, address common problems, and seize common opportunities. The U.N. helps establish the norms that many countries - including the United States - would like everyone to live by.

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