Marian Anderson Quotes

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Marian Anderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 17, 1902 - August 8, 1993

Topics

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When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him.

Jill Bennett

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When you're in a play like 'Kean,' you can't think of anything else. Love is too time-consuming.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I'm reviewing the book, I have to write the review before I start reading any other book. I especially hate it when the phone rings and interrupts my train of thought.

Michael Dirda

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

John Stuart Mill

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Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

Shirley Temple

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I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying.

Ron Pope

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I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, 'Honey, you can't continue to sing like that, or you'll have no voice,' and Janis' response was just to laugh and take a swig on her Southern Comfort.

Michael Wadleigh

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I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Michael Schenker

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I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they're relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.

Josh Turner

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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Joseph Epstein

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I first met Linda Lawrence in March 1965 in the green room of 'Ready Steady Go!,' the British pop TV show. Linda was a friend of one of the co-hosts. She had an art-school vibe, and after a brief conversation, I asked her to dance to a soul record playing. As we jazz danced, I fell in love.

Donovan

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I've been to the White House a number of times.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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