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Whitney Houston Quote: 'Being around people like Aretha Franklin ...'

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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.


Marianne Faithfull
Tags: God You Know
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Observe all men, thyself most.


Benjamin Franklin
Tags: Men Most Observe
I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
Natalie Cole
Tags: Money Were First
Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
D'Angelo
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Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.


Aretha Franklin
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I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.


Aretha Franklin
Tags: Music Always Very
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I like being around people.


LeBron James
Tags: People Like Being
I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!
Raini Rodriguez
Tags: Music Like More
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
Rem Koolhaas
Tags: Future About Only
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Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.


Franklin Knight Lane
Tags: Men More Than
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
Mary J. Blige
Tags: Music God You
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I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.


Britney Spears
Tags: People Like Out
When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable - onstage, talking, making 'em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.
Ron White
Tags: Things Go Being
I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.
Peter Dinklage
Tags: People Me Like
I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.


Dick Cavett
Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
Jonathan Miller
Tags: You People Me
I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.
Paul Weller
Tags: Car People About
Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven't been taught how to take control of their financial future.
Robert Kiyosaki
Tags: Future People Who
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
Zig Ziglar