Getting a degree, being on ...

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
 Chaka Khan

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
 John Shelby Spong
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
 Olivia Palermo
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

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My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.
 Chaka Khan
As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.
 Chaka Khan
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
 Chaka Khan
I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.
 Chaka Khan
But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
 Chaka Khan