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I love giving. I love sharing.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Sharing
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I go to as many football games as I can.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Football Games
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I don't live in L.A. I live in Las Vegas.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Las Vegas
Vegas
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I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Decision
Made
Regret
Decisions
Life Regret My Life
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I like collaborations, and I like working with people. I do.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Collaborations
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I have a thing about working with young people. I adore them.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Adore
People Young Young People
Young People
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I have a choir in my church, and we travel all over the world.
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Choir
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Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Let Me
Wells
Me Dance Never
Danced
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I have wonderful children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Grandchildren
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The Lord tells us where we are going and tells us when we are coming.
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Lord
Coming
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I have a faith that's unbendable as far as my Lord and Savior is concerned.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Savior
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I've spent all of my life trying to get people to feel a passion for what I do.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Passion
Life Passion My Life
Life My Life People
Spent
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Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Soul
Spirit
Use
Inner
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Nobody has a perfect anything. We don't have perfect lives. We're not perfect beings.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Not Perfect
Perfect
Anything
Nobody
Beings
Lives
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Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Appreciation
Smile
Best Things
Fronts
Sometimes
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We should definitely be more careful about the things that we chose to do with our lives.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Careful
Our Lives
Should
Chose
Definitely
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When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Concerts
Pay
Want
Best Money Me
Best Money Your
Concert
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If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Life Is
Song
Spirit
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I have a squash casserole that everybody, even my kids, love. I won't tell my kids how to make it.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Squash
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You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Adultery
Found Someone
Infidelity
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My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Choir
Mom And Dad
Music Mom Dad
Music Dad Mom
Sang
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With 'American Idol,' they're giving you a pass to get launched on, and it's up to you what you do with it.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
American Idol
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I am a Barack Obama fan from head-to-toe - always have been. He's not perfect; nobody is going to be that way.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Barack
Not Perfect
Obama
Barack Obama
Fan
I Am Way Perfect
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I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Four
Mentor
Singing
Mentors
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When I was on Arsenio Hall's show, he asked me about working with Kanye West or John Legend. I said I'd love to.
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Legend
Hall
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I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Men
And Love
Fellow Man
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I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Good Person
Love Good Men
Fellow
Fellow Men
Supposed
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I do know that on my mom's side, my uncle sang and had a gospel group. He also had a radio show he would do on Sundays with his quartet.
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Gospel
Sang
Quartet
Sundays
Uncle
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God is gracious enough to let us know, in due time while we're here and the fact that I'm still around and I'm still singing, it is really to his glory.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Glory
Gracious
Singing
Due
God Time Enough
Let Us
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Mary J. Blige has made the most improvement, to me, and the depth of the spirit and the soul in her music, the way she sings, gives her that 'it' factor.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Depth
Improvement
Mary
Music Soul Me
Blige
Factor
Sings
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Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'
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Arena
Davis
Ballad
Sing
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I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Singing
Starting
Great Myself Me
Since
Coming
Early
Mentors
Preserve
Telling
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I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
College
Business Me People
Downs
Gives
Send
Ups
Ups And Downs
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Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Please
Believe Me Song
Concert
Believe Always Your
List
Necessarily
Please Everyone
Sing
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I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
God
Different
Interacting
Intriguing
Really
Greatest
Love God People
Them
Lover
Creations
Different People
Meet
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Talent like Michael's is rare. I feel so privileged to have known him and so look forward to honouring his memory in what is going to be the biggest and only tribute to this great showman.
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Looks
Memories
Talent
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That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Courage
Being Afraid
Bigger
Life Lesson
Life Fear Your
Afraid
Part
Deal
Else
Over
Lesson
Question
Something Else
Summon
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I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Concerned
Jazz
Ella
Fitzgerald
Queen
The Only Thing
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We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Opportunity
Uplifting
Advantage
Blessed
Responsibility
Gospel
Every Chance
Full Advantage
Uplift
Wonderfully
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Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.
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Melody
Midnight
Love Me Song
Neither
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I got into gambling when I was playing a casino. I was a hermit in those days. I would go onstage, go to my room, or if we had to travel, I'd get in a car or a plane, whatever. But I didn't do anything. One day, this friend of mine said, 'Do you want to play some blackjack?'
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Car
Travel
Gambling
One Day
Blackjack
Days
Casino
Friend
Hermit
Mine
Room
Plane
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Love is what makes the world go around. I know it's a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire to have in our lives.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Truth
Absolute Truth
Aspire
Brother
Love Is
Our Lives
Sisterhood
Love Love Is World
Love Truth Love Is
Around
Striving
Relationships
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I know those challenges that come up from time to time in life are our little learning tools, our little steppingstones. If we didn't have those things in our life, how would we learn anything? We would just be walking around like nothing. We need those obstacles in our life because I know one thing - I'm a much better person for them.
Gladys Knight / Songwriter
Learning
Better Person
Challenges
Obstacles
One Thing
Tools
Walking
Little
Life Time Learning
Life Time Challenges
Come
Anything
Around
From Time To Time
Just Be
Learn
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