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So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.


Tina Turner


#ago #because #been #came #could

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.


Patrick White


#breathed #cannot #component #dividing #explain

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.


Angus Wilson


#below #breathing #central #charged #early

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.


Cassandra Wilson


#career #davis #every #his #master

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?


Francis Wright


#been #civilized #civilized nations #engaged #enlightened

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.


Frank Lloyd Wright


#follows #form #function #joined #misunderstood

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.


Lawrence Wright


#american public #ancient #celebrities #celebrity #church

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.


Emeril Lagasse


#age #back #community #cook #cooking

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.


R. D. Laing


#despair #schizophrenia #understanding #understood #without

I stood there amazed. I found it all hard to believe, that I, Des Nilsen, had actually done all that.


Dennis Nilsen


#amazed #believe #des #done #found