Jamelia Quotes
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
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Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
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We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.
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Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.
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In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.
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Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
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Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.
