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When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.
I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.
You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.
Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.
Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.
It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.
I've got a great family, great career, great friends, and a lot of passions, which make my life interesting and fulfilling every day.
I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.
I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.
I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.
Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.
I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard as I can go.
I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.
The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.
Johnny Carson is a comedian who is seen every night in millions of bedrooms all over America...and that's why his last wife left him.
Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.
Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.
Quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then, according to the papers, I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends.
I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience.
I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, "Let's start the year off together," and then we wound up breaking up the night after!
I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!
Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.
'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
I'm careful with my heart. I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Being a woman, you deserve heaven and earth.
I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.
I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud.
I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken advantage of, either.
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance.
I think living in a way that's close to nature makes you feel like that - makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death.
[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.
I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
You have to take a leap of faith before exposing yourself completely in terms of feelings and desires - especially if you're a woman.
I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.