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Aretha Franklin Quotes

You have singers that are trained, and then you have natural singers: people that, in my opinion, were just born to sing. And hopefully, I am one of them.

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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I Am People Opinion You Born Sing

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

Andre Dubus III

Success Fog Writing Book Believe

I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ, and became, later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Father Mother Music City Small Born

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

Robert Bork

Law Fashion Moral Intellectual Winds

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Ronnie Milsap

Work Money Day Fun Will Some

For generations, minor-league baseball has been seen as the scrappier, sometimes seedier, counterpart to its big-league sibling. Games are often cloaked in strange and sometimes awkward theme nights. Some of the mascots are ragged or downright bizarre. The ballparks are smaller and filled with fewer fans.

Mary Pilon

Baseball Sibling Sometimes Strange

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Value Dignity Desire Must Our Means

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

Lloyd Doggett

Good America Tradition Career Side

To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place.

Jason Aaron

Moment Me Feel Interesting You Bad

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Children Time Moment Decision Wife

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

Dolph Lundgren

Day Meditation Difference Breathing

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

Chester Bennington

Cool

I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.

CM Punk

Losing Winning My Own Own Succeeding