Freddy Adu Quotes

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

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• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Me

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • World
  • Attention
  • Songs

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Character
  • Book
  • Me

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Life
  • Long
  • Children

• My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

  

  Becky G
  • House
  • Attention
  • Singing

• I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Anonymity

• I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give me your attention. In exchange, I'll give you something else.' The cash register is not ringing. It's not denominated in dollars or cents or euros, but it is a form of sales in a way. It is an exchange.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Saying

• Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those – too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Flash

• We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Attention
  • Government

• I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Attention

• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Attention

• I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Never
  • Human
  • Said

• In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

  

  Kesha
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Attention

• Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Death
  • Attention

• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Humanity

• She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep.Prayers didn’t do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him)

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Faces

• I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Attention