Jamelia Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
-
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
-
When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
-
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
-
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
-
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
-
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
-
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
-
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
-
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
-
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
-
Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
-
Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
-
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
-
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
-
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
-
It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
-
Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
-
My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.
-
I don't want the kids to go through want I went through.
-
I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.
-
In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.
-
If I can learn how to pitch in two months, and I'm doing OK, how can we not assume that a woman who's been working on it for her entire life won't be playing in the MLB? It's ridiculous.
-
My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.
