Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

Jada Pinkett Smith

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• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Nature
  • Dream
  • Religion

• The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Hands
  • Institution
  • Euro

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Funny

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Self

• I don't take my clothes off in my videos.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Clothes
  • Take
  • Off

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stars
  • New
  • India

• If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Love
  • Movies

• Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Courage

• I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Way
  • Top
  • Wacky

• I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Black
  • Team
  • Best

• I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Project

• I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Weird

• You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Soul
  • Desire
  • Dark

• Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

  

  Nancy E. Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Marriage

• It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Wise
  • Enemies
  • House On Fire

• My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Bond

• I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith