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I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Birthday Day Died Father Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Go Had He Heart His Hospital Memory Nine Old Roosevelt Same Strong Weak Years

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As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

~Alanis Morissette

Topics: Aretha Franklin Hip-Hop James Joni Mitchell Kid Like Listening Mitchell Music Parents Well Were

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I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.

~Andra Day

Topics: Aretha Big Coach Dove Franklin Got Hill Houston Influenced Jazz Jazz Music Like Me Music Older People Really Scott Spoke Started Until Voice Voices Whitney Whitney Houston Working Younger Younger People

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I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

~Ann Richards

Topics: Born Community Depression Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Grew Just Listening Little Outside Radio Roosevelt Up I Was Born

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The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: American Benjamin Franklin Franklin Iconic Leave Myth Nest Never People Return Should Started Young Young People

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Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.

~Anne Graham Lotz

Topics: Anybody Because Brother Change Every Every Time Franklin God Grace He His Just Life Man Praise Prodigal See Time I See

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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Adequate Approach Approaches Depression Fails Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Had He Lessons Need New New Things Orthodox Orthodoxy Roosevelt Shown Something Then Things Think Try Very Willing You I Think

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Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

~Beth Ditto

Topics: Aretha Background Came Christian Feminist Franklin Incredibly Inspiring Lot Love Mom Musician Really Teenage Way Which Who

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You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.

~Bobby Womack

Topics: Aretha Away Barbra Streisand Between Charles Difference Each Everyone Franklin Knew Like Now Other Ray Ray Charles Right Sounds Stevie Stevie Wonder Straight Streisand Think Wonder You

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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

~Burl Ives

Topics: Bell Benjamin Franklin Franklin Had How Jefferson Liberty See Streets Things Thomas Thomas Jefferson Tom Walk Walked Where

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