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Sarah Vaughan Quotes

I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 27, 1924 - April 3, 1990

Topics

School Singing High School Year Quit

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

Faith Bird Prayer Wings Movement

Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.

Michael Ignatieff

Power Fire Government Democracy Go

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill

Good Community Power Purpose Moral

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

Stanley Schmidt

Good Better Possible Anything Nasty

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

Night Thinking Remember Find Dark

People would be like, 'Oh, 'Saturday Night Live' is such a stepping stone!' And I remember being like, 'A stepping stone?! This is my everything! I could just stop right here! This is the pinnacle!'

Live People Night Saturday Remember

Tons of musicians who I love are imprisoned by their identity. That can be totally fine because they are so amazing in their technique, but for me, I'm a little too restless for that.

Love Identity Amazing Me Musicians

The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me.

Clay Matthews III

Me Story Better Grandfather Days He

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work.

Work Disrespect Way Dialogue Out

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Arthur Erickson

Today Improvement World Confident

I get along with people. But I don't sacrifice my principles either.

Sacrifice People Principles Get

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Terrorism Unfair Human Rights Only

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