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 -
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 -
War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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 -
I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
Nancy Grace
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I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency, and they should call for general elections and realize an election. That's what we want. And I believe that President Obama made the right decisions condemning the coup d'etat.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
I am glad to have the opportunity of standing up against a rabble of men who hasten to make weathercocks of themselves.
James A. Garfield -
I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
For Kitty Gilbert in 'Topsy-Turvy,' I had to get to the point where I could improvise in the style of 1880, which is difficult. The research for that was huge.
Lesley Manville -
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