Jeremih Felton (Jeremih) Quotes

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Child
  • Gift

• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Fire

• I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • Years
  • Four

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Planned

• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Constitution

• Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Great
  • Different
  • Guitar

• Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Family
  • Texas
  • Farm

• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Winning
  • Things

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Football
  • Soccer

• A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.

  

  Callum Blue
  • Life
  • Work
  • Privilege

• You can't sustain anger. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Bitter
  • Resentment
  • Juice

• As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • History
  • Culture
  • Broken

• I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

  

  John Prescott
  • People
  • Family
  • Mother

• Physically, women have some challenges in the kitchen, like lifting heavy pots on and off the stove. You learn to adapt; you learn to find a way. But the biggest challenge for women in this industry is how to balance a family with such a demanding career.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Women
  • Family
  • Career

• I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • Family
  • Chicago