"I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7."

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Source : "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. August 9, 2017.

Barbara Cook

#Thinking Quotes #Firsts Quotes #My Family Quotes

“I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.”

Source : "Dog N-Bombs Himself into Hiatus" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. October 31, 2007.
“I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.”
“By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.36, A&C Black
“I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall telling me how much time I have left, and how far behind I am. I look at it and panic, and decide which scene to work on. And you sit there plonking notes until something makes sense, and you don't think about it any more. Good tunes come when you're not thinking about it.”
“You have to have a little faith in people.”
“I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics”
“I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.”
“In terms of getting super successful, every once in a while, something very different gets successful and than everything that comes after is kind of like it, maybe. That's what happened with Nirvana, which was so out there and changed everything, and then so much after became imitative of them.”

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