My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.
WHITNEY HOUSTONGrowing around great musicians, you just can’t help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.
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When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That’s what I wanted to do.
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I’m the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something’s going down, I won’t eat. Some people eat, I don’t eat. And it shows in my physical frame.
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She’s my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
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I’ve always been a thin girl. I’m not going to be fat, ever. Let’s get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?
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My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
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I’m not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn’t do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don’t have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
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I’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
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Sometimes you’ll laugh. Sometimes you’ll cry. Life never tells us, the when’s or why’s. When you’ve got friends, to wish you well. You’ll find your point when. You will exhale.
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I’ve turned down a lot of arena dates because I’ve done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
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I’ve never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful.
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I believe that children are our future
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I believe the children are our future
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You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.
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I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
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Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let’s get that straight. OK? We don’t do crack. We don’t do that. Crack is whack.
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