"I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent."

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Source : "Madeleine Peyroux looks deep inside". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 19, 2009.

Madeleine Peyroux

#Teenager Quotes #Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.”

Source : E. D. Baker (2011). “The Dragon Princess: And other tales of Magic, Spells and True Luuurve”, A&C Black
“How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?”

Source : "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.
“Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want to create your bliss.”
“You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone”
“You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.”

Source : "Former 'Family Feud' host Richard Dawson dies". www.cnn.com. December 11, 2012.
“The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.”

Source : Obituary at CalTech, September 7, 2005.
“Becoming world champion is something I have worked at for my entire career. It doesn't matter to me that my first title shot is at a different weight. The opportunity is at super-middleweight and I am going to take it. But that doesn't mean I am forever going to be restricted to the super-middleweight division. I've still got a lot of work to do, a lot of unfinished business at middleweight.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
“Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.”

Source : Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.

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