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"It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
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"My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters."
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"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
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"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."
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"No, because I've never really changed my style that much."
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"You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it."
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"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
Music

"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
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"Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic."
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"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."
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"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."
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