"I like to sing very much."

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Della Reese

“Whatever I do, I always want to get better.”

Source : "People know I was the last true champion" by Thomas Hauser, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2006.
“The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.”
“I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.”
“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”
“To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.”
“Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.”
“We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.”
“All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think,”

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