I always want to be the best and if I can't, I don't want to run.
Evelyn Ashford
Recitation: by Male by Female
There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know? You have a job to do, so you do that job of singing that song or telling that story because that's what you're doing.
Jimmy Scott
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Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.
Jim Yong Kim
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Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.
Jerome Charyn
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The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
John Chrysostom
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I love that denim can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Anything goes.
Melina Matsoukas
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We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob blocked us again. We didn't pursue it.
Medgar Evers
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The beauty of cable is you could program for 18-year-old twins and get a hit show on cable.
Robert Greenblatt
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I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.
Amanda de Cadenet
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I love Italian fashion - the sense of style that Italians have as part of their DNA. Nobody is like them.
Sonam Kapoor
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It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.
Roger Ebert
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We buy the most expensive grain available growing on the best part of Russian land called black soil. We also play close attention to the purity of the water - we get it from Lake Ladoga. We store it ourselves to specific conditions. We carefully manage distillation at my distillery in Moscow.
Roustam Tariko
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You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.
David Talbot
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