Fantasia Barrino Quotes

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Acting

• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Genius
  • Push

• You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Distance

• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Enemy
  • Difference

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • Today
  • Struggle

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia

• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Accomplish

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Successful
  • Look

• I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • Interested
  • Cry

• My idea of fast food is a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Idea
  • Fast

• The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • Guy

• Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Art
  • Eye
  • Beholder

• Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Up
  • World
  • Book

• Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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