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Aretha Franklin Quotes

I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.

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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Success Me I Can Say Big Been

Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it.

Marriage Time Effort Talking You

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.

Happy Friends Fast Create Want Boy

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

Michael Ignatieff

History Imagination Story Moral More

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

College Spirit Old Adventurous Part

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

Jordan Peterson

Left Radical Fan Obviously

I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.

Good Chef Line Level Cook Make

It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.

People Movies Entertainment Beyond

There's a gotcha piece in every interview that the press has, more or less, with President Trump.

President More Interview Press Piece

I kind of felt like I was never good enough. I always wanted more.

Good Enough Kind More Never Always

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

Today Day Tomorrow You Yesterday

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

William Shenstone

Aim Pleasure Chief Unhappiness Leads

Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.

Daughter Man I Am Happy Me Think

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