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Carole King Quotes

I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1942

Topics

Famous Never Singer Only Songwriter

I can't give up and sacrifice my career, my future for a man, especially being engaged for so many years.

Future Man Sacrifice Career Up Give

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

Good Wife Mountain Action Problems

Chicago, we always had it. People just shied away because it's nothing businesswise from the industry. Everybody from Chi will go to N.Y.C. or L.A. - R. Kelly to Kanye to even Twista. Everybody is great from there, but it's nothing downtown.

Great People Go Chicago Nothing

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

I Am Performance My Own Always Own

We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a thriving middle class. You look at the G.I. Bill after the war - it was an investment in our service members who had served this nation with distinction.

Service War Proud Long You Look

Actors very often are people who think it's always about 'me,' and I can see why! No one else is going to support you or say, 'Gosh, I'm sorry about that,' or, 'Here, let me give you a job.' It doesn't happen that way. You can see why performers get very self-absorbed.

Job Support People Me Sorry Think

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

Great Justice Special Equal Favors

I want people to think of me as one of the game's greatest players.

People Me Game Think Want Greatest

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

Michelle Malkin

Pizza You Circle Looks Chicago Like

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Business King Me You Nothing Tell

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Truth Face Rich Name Friends You

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger Fall Ruins Like Those Which

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