You have been my friend," replied Charlotte, "That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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AIDAN WHITE No. That is not what I heard him say.
AIDAN WHITE One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ...
BARRY WHITE Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my...
BARRY WHITE People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's ag...
SHAUN WHITE I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place l...
SHAUN WHITE Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad th...
MEG WHITE It is amazing how generous people really are. This has really been a great thing.
ALAN WHITE Our strategy is to focus on those areas where we can have a good competitive advantage, so we do thi...
ALAN WHITE It's too bad that the taxpayers have to bear the brunt of additional bills,
ALAN WHITE Obasanjo has absolutely no control over this guy, ... like a head of state down there.
ALAN WHITE It is a great relief to finally have won our first game, especially against such a strong side as Ro...
ALAN WHITE Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
HALE WHITE There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art ...
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