Luther Vandross Quotes

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

Luther Vandross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 20, 1951 - July 1, 2005

Topics

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I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran off and left me, and as darkness hurried in, I suddenly realised how far from home I was.

John Burnside

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If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

John McCain

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With 'Midnight Special,' the sound was used as a narrative construct. The audience is looking in one direction when a sound suddenly erupts from the other direction.

Jeff Nichols

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Merle Shain

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Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Aminatta Forna

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When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

Moby

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I believe that I've improved a lot as a player and a person, because being surrounded by great players on a daily basis helps your development out on the pitch.

Luka Modric

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I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

Joshua Bell

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Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

Josh Groban

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No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.

Donald Wuerl

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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

Chinua Achebe

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Hopefully I get to do more than one Olympics in my lifetime.

Chloe Kim

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