Maria Cornejo Quotes

I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

Maria Cornejo

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I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

Joe Cocker

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Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.

Jessica Hahn

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I have a ton of cousins on my mom's side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.

Maulik Pancholy

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In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

Angus Deaton

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You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.

Trisha Yearwood

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True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don't be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream.

Robin S. Sharma

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I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

Marvin Hamlisch

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Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

Juanes

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If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy doing his solo career. He's got a different band every time he goes out.

Chris Frantz

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I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York, and I was signed to perform at The Village Gate and the Vanguard and clubs like that, and these - the Vanguard was one of the most elite, if not the most elite, jazz club out there.

Aretha Franklin

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I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

Anne Roiphe

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I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

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