Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.Jada Pinkett Smith
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
Irina Shayk -
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
Ian Williams Battles -
The director had come to Madrid to court me.
Victoria Abril -
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
Barney Ross
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
Sai Baba -
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
Carl Wilson -
Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
Sally Pearson -
I have been acting since I was thirteen.
Caleb Landry Jones -
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
Aaliyah -
There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
Imogen Poots
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
J. J. Watt -
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
Hans Haacke -
The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
Ed Markey
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In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
Christian Dior -
Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
John Howard -
What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.
John Zorn -
I like the old-school muscle cars.
Kawhi Leonard -
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.
Christine de Pizan -
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
Jada Pinkett Smith