Chaka Khan Quotes

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.

Chaka Khan

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WorkMusicMeDegreeAcknowledgment

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

CharacterSpaceMeShyNeedKid

I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks.

John Burnside

GreatBorderRichPlantRemember

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

Michael Dirda

WorkHistoryTimeExperiencePoetry

The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power.

Rosalind Wiseman

PowerLoyaltyExperiencePeople

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

Rupert Everett

I AmPartnerDownWrongWantWay

I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.

Mira Nair

NatureArtOptimismMeThinkRhythm

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

Mitch Landrieu

LoveStreetRatI Love

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Lucas Papademos

ExitCannotCurrencyGreeceDeliver

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

Christopher Buckley

PlanWriteMasterAlongJust

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Cleveland Abbe

ScienceTrueNeverInquiryThough

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

Brody Armstrong

TimeBookSomeoneYouPageMeet

I know everything I do is going to be magnified.

Antonio Brown

KnowEverythingGoingMagnified

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