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"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."
"I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'"
"The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit."
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
"As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine."
"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value."
"When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer."
"Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history"
"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
"For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors."
"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed."
"I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue."
"I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it."
"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."
"Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity"
"The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived."
"So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being."
"Life is so great. Life is so fun. Life is so great in my head because I see the love. I see what life could be. As long as I can fulfill it and fulfill my days, it will be fruitful and come about."
"How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?"
"You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself"
