Robert Smith
Musician
"I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston."
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David Foster
Author
"Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio"
Howard Dean
Politician
"Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence."
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music."
Philip Johnson
Architect
"Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston."
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"Houston, we have a problem."
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"I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing."
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"A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump."
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"Whitney Houston came in. Someone dared me to do "the Gap act" on her. You know, the Gap act. So I went up to her like I didn't know who she was, and I said, 'Hi, I just wanted to let you know about our sale items and make sure to check out our new colors'. She looked at me like I was crazy."
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"Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston."
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