Peabo Bryson Quotes

#1. There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Diane Duane

#2. I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.

Jan Valtin

#3. If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

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#4. If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

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#5. I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

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#6. You know what I mean?

Andrew McMahon

#7. There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

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#8. I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

Casey Nicholaw

#9. I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

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#10. I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.

Eva Mendes

#11. Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.

Marcel Wanders

#12. Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

Maria Bartiromo

#13. I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

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#14. Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

Starhawk

#15. Poverty would always exist when we allow injustices to speak.

Henry Johnson Jr

#16. If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

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#17. Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

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#18. My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

Oliver North

#19. I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

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#20. But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

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#21. Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

Imelda Marcos

#22. There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

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#23. It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.

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#24. For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

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#25. ANIMOSITY (ANIMO'SITY) n.s.[animositas, Lat.]Vehemence of hatred; passionate malignity. It implies rather the disposition to break out into outrages, than the outrage itself. They were sure to bring passion,

Samuel Johnson

#26. The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything

Lemony Snicket

#27. I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

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#28. In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

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#29. Trends don't mean very much.

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#30. I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

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#31. Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

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#32. I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

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#33. The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

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#34. I think you create your own hipness.

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#35. I'm not angry at anyone.

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#36. Hell is reimagined by each generation. Its terrain is surveyed for absurdities and remade in a fresher mold; its terrors are scrutinized and, if necessary, reinvented to suit the current climate of atrocity; its architecture is redesigned to appall the eye of the modern damned.

Clive Barker

#37. I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

Terry Gilliam

#38. Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

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