Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
ARETHA FRANKLINNow, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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Better friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.
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I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
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Soul is a constant. It’s cultural. It’s always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
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And I’ve been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I’m an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin’on sixty-five.
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I’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it’s sad and smiles when it’s happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin’ takes courage.
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Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
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As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war … You have to learn when to let go. And that’s not easy.
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I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.
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Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.
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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I’m happy with that.
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Let’s start with the church. As you know, it’s my background, it’s a natural setting for me and it’s definitely my roots.
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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
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Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.
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