Gladys Knight Quotes

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

Gladys Knight

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There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.

John Green

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I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they would all say 'amen' at the end of each, for want of a better word, paragraph. And that threw me completely. I almost went into an Ella Fitzgerald sort of scat.

Jeffrey Tambor

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The message I want to send out is that women are sexy.

Stella Maxwell

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I want to make sure I'm climbing because there's no back-up. No one in my family has a house, and, regardless of your background, if someone has a house, that means you can always come back home. When you don't have that, it's like there isn't anywhere to stand, so you have to keep jumping.

Michaela Coel

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I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

Jason Momoa

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I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

Jason Mraz

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Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

Joseph Brodsky

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Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

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A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

Deborah Bull

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Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.

Chevy Chase

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I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

Chelsea Clinton

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I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.

Brian Azzarello

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