Top 100 Quotes About Dionne
#1. Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.
Dionne Warwick
#2. Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
Whitney Houston
#3. Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event ... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.
Raven Goodwin
#4. My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
Clive Davis
#5. Heaven is freakin' not ready for me! - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman
Deana J. Driver
#6. I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.
Elton John
#7. When they were done, Dionne took her panties in one hand and her new Bible in the other and let the breeze when it came touch her where Trevor had before. She felt wiser somehow, an looking at the church lit up above, thought that maybe this kin of pleasure could be her religion.
Naomi Jackson
#8. I'm never going to give in. I'm never going to give up, and I will fight back with every breath I have.
- Dionne Warner, seven-time cancer survivor and subject of Never Leave Your Wingman
Deana J. Driver
#9. You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable. - Graham Warner, husband of fun-loving seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner
Deana J. Driver
#10. From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
Aberjhani
#11. I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!
Darlene Love
#12. People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
Dionne Warwick
#14. Dali's Reclining Woman Wearing a Chemise looks like a dead slaughtered doll, and I can see preying eagles, broken arrows, and jazz musicians in Jackson Pollock, and because I believe that Man Ray and Duchamp were lovers.
Dionne Brand
#15. The greatest flight I've ever flown was coming home.
Marcel Dionne
#16. Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Dionne Warwick
#17. People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.
Dionne Warwick
#18. All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.
Dionne Warwick
#19. We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
Marcel Dionne
#20. I'll tell something, a lot of times I'd listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was.
Marcel Dionne
#21. It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.
Dionne Warwick
#22. It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of a childhood living room. When you think that you are in the grace of a dance you come upon something hard.
Dionne Brand
#23. People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
Marcel Dionne
#24. I am an outspoken person. I believe in what I say.
Dionne Warwick
#25. What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.
Dionne Warwick
#26. I used to like the Jonas Brothers, but only because I thought that they were good-looking, not because I actually liked their music.
Dionne Bromfield
#27. Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.
Dionne Brand
#28. Until Charlie broke his ankle in Toronto, we were as good a unit as anybody.
Marcel Dionne
#29. Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.
Marcel Dionne
#30. The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.
Dionne Bromfield
#31. I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
Marcel Dionne
#32. At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
#33. I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 years have.
Dionne Warwick
#35. It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
Dionne Warwick
#36. I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.
Dionne Brand
#37. If I am peaceful ... is not peace,/is getting used to harm.
Dionne Brand
#38. I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.
E. J. Dionne
#39. I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.
Dionne Warwick
#40. The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.
E. J. Dionne
#41. The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.
Dionne Warwick
#42. The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.
Marcel Dionne
#43. I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.
Dionne Bromfield
#44. Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'
Dionne Bromfield
#45. If my hair was on fire and llamas came to put it out, he'd tell me the shot was great.
Erin Dionne
#46. At one of my old schools, I didn't tell anyone I was doing my first album because I was worried they'd be like, 'Who does she think she is?' So I just let them find out for themselves.
Dionne Bromfield
#47. I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.
Dionne Warwick
#48. What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long term effects.
E. J. Dionne
#49. We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.
E. J. Dionne
#50. Before I put on my make up, I say a little prayer for you.
Dionne Warwick
#51. So don't tell me how love will rescue me, I was carnivorous about love, I ate love to the ankles, my thighs are gnawed with love still and yet I cannot have loved, since living was all I could do and for that, I was caged in bone spur endlessly
Dionne Brand
#53. I love heels. I remember the first time I saw a pair of heels my mum said: 'You're not wearing those. They're too high!'
Dionne Bromfield
#54. It's not about how big or expensive a present is, it's the thought that is so nice.
Dionne Bromfield
#55. I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.
Dionne Warwick
#56. When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.
E. J. Dionne
#57. All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!
Dionne Warwick
#58. Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon.
Dionne Warwick
#59. I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.
Dionne Warwick
#60. I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.
Dionne Warwick
#61. I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr.
Marcel Dionne
#63. I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there.
Marcel Dionne
#64. My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
Dionne Warwick
#65. I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.
Dionne Warwick
#66. Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
#67. I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.
Dionne Warwick
#68. People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.
Dionne Brand
#70. My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.
Dionne Warwick
#71. They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.
Dionne Brand
#72. Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.
Dionne Brand
#74. Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.
Dionne Brand
#75. If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they've been. If I see a city I see it's living ghostliness - the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it's needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.
Dionne Brand
#76. My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.
Dionne Warwick
#77. We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
Dionne Warwick
#78. The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.
Dionne Warwick
#79. Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!
Dionne Bromfield
#80. There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
Dionne Warwick
#83. I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.
Dionne Bromfield
#84. I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.
Dionne Warwick
#86. To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.
Marcel Dionne
#87. I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family.
Dionne Warwick
#88. I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.
Dionne Warwick
#89. The publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .
E. J. Dionne
#91. Dance floors would bleed from the knife of her dress
Dionne Brand
#92. I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.
Dionne Warwick
#93. Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Erin Dionne
#94. As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?
Dionne Warwick
#95. The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
Dionne Warwick
#96. Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.
Dionne Warwick
#97. She could assassinate streets with her eyes
Dionne Brand
#98. I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.
Dionne Warwick
#99. So, what if everything in life is an illusion? Well, choose your illusion; Don't let it choose you.
Dionne
#100. Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress.
Dionne Warwick
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