"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

#Knights Quotes #People Quotes #Taught Quotes

“Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.”
“One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but donâ€™t feel powerless. White people donâ€™t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part of the mythology that theyâ€™ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.”
“It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”
“When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.”
“When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.”

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“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”
“You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.â€ â€œA proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.â€ â€œYou did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”
“I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.”

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