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“Yeah, it's hard. It's really, really hard. But 'hard' is not 'impossible'.”
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“It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.”
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“I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.”
Source : "Yolanda Adams 'How Sweet The Sound'". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 23, 2012.
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“Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.”
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“They should've built a city on rock and roll.”
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“With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.”
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“There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.”
Source : "Bryan Adams on learning to deal with fame". Interview with Shirley Halperin, uk.reuters.com. March 22, 2011.