Christina Grimmie Quotes
I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
-
We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
-
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
-
'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
-
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
-
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
-
I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
-
You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
-
I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
-
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
-
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
-
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
-
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
-
Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
-
I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
-
I really focus on making sure that we pass good policy. I don't mind throwing my elbows around to get it done.
-
Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi
-
Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.
-
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
-
I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.
