"You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life. Or, if we talk about it, we'll find a secular way of doing it that will not be offensive to people of non-belief. So, that you go through life with these alternate voices."

-- Richard Rodriguez

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“With the way music is going right now, it's difficult for an r&b singer to make real music. If it's not with a trap beat and you're not mumbling, no disrespect to all of the great artists out there doing what they're doing, I'm not hating, I'm just saying it's difficult for r&b singers right now to make quality music.”
“I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”
“I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.”
“I do believe in what I call the stewardship of influence as well as the stewardship of affluence. And that is you use whatever God gives you not for your own benefit, but use it to help people who have no benefit. And when you use whatever God gives you, he gives you more of it. When you use it well, he gives you more of it.”
“I felt that if others can overcome incredible challenges to be in shape, why would my story be any different?”

Source : "This Fit Mom Has Been Accused of "Fat Shaming" With Her Facebook Picture" by Lexi Petronis, www.glamour.com. October 17, 2013.
“I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.”

Source : Source: www.premiumtimesng.com
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”

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