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I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer
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I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.
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There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.
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You can tell a lot about a person by whether or not they're a transvestite.
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A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.
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A revival means days of heaven upon earth.
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Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.
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Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big.
