Don’t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.
I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself. . . Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.
I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. . . I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?