Fantasia Barrino Quotes

R. Kelly is different - music is always going through his brain. I remember we'd be having a conversation, and he'd choose a word I said and write a whole song to it.

Fantasia Barrino

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I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

Jessie Buckley

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I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

Melania Trump

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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

Anand Giridharadas

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Before Liszt, a conductor was someone who just facilitated the performance, who would keep people together or beat the time, indicate the entries. After Liszt, that was no longer the case; a conductor was someone who shaped the music in an intense musical way, who played the orchestra as an instrument.

Stephen Hough

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When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave the 'Today Show' to go to cable?' If I would've listened to people, I would've been on a great platform, but I wouldn't have grown as a journalist. So far, most of the steps in my career have been really good.

Soledad O'Brien

GoodTodayGreatPeopleYouCareer

I was in the U.K. and Germany and went to Volkswagen and learned about their apprenticeship model - young people become paid apprentices in trades. It's not a coincidence that youth unemployment is far lower in Germany than the United States because there are paid opportunities for young people to get experience.

Tom Perez

ExperiencePeopleYouthOpportunities

I have accepted the fact that I don't work very quickly, that I have been rejected a lot as a writer, and that what I do is unusual, so I just have to accept the terms and that it's going to take longer. It is what it is.

Min Jin Lee

WorkAcceptIt Is What It IsGoing

I just want to work with the best people I can get my hands on.

Jason Winston George

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Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

Don Miguel Ruiz

SocietyBornHumanHereUsWhole

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Dick Van Dyke

PersonalityWhoGeneralReallyAm

Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.

Dennis Kucinich

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Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Desmond Morris

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