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• My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

  Steve Harvey

  Mother, Home, Sunday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

  Graham Chapman

  Death, Rest In Peace, Would Be

  Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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• I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

  Beth Ditto

  Growing Up, Quiet Voice, Knights

  "The insiders guide to Beth Ditto". www.cnn.com. November 24, 2006.

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• I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

  Kate Clinton

  Religious, Morning, Gay

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from May 07, 2015

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• Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing

  Della Reese

  Thinking, Long, Littles

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• I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

  Arthur Godfrey

  School, College, Symphony

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• I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

  Ernst Zundel

  War, Boys, Second Chance

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• I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

  Elizabeth Moon

  School, Sunday, Taught

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• Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Strong, Boys, Voice

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Girl, Drama

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• In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Song, Teacher, School

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• % of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Usa, Singing

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• I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

  Della Reese

  White, Rays, Singers

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

  Annie Dillard

  Tunnels, Views, Darkness

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, books.google.ru. January 1, 2011.

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• The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Lying, Believe

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• She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Witty, Love Is

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.203, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.

  Ellie Goulding

  Crazy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Voice, Individual, Unison

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• One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

  Bob Dylan

  Fire, Race, Rock And Roll

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,
  To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
  As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,
  Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Memories, Winter, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Norman R. Shapiro (2000). “Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal: A Bilingual Edition”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

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• We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Meaningful

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• Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

  George Eliot

  Music, Echoes, Law

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

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• Let us quake before the great Spirit, Who is my God, Who has made me know God, Who is God there above, and Who forms God here: almighty, imparting manifold gifts, Him Whom the holy choir hymns, Who brings life to those in heaven and on earth, and is enthroned on high, coming from the Father, the divine force, self-commandeered; He is not a Child (for there is one worthy Child of the One who is best), nor is He outside the unseen Godhead, but of identical honor.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Children, Father

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• Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

  Leonard Cohen

  Drunk, Bird, Wire

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.41, Omnibus Press

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