Faith Evans Quotes

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Serious

• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• The first president I met was L. B. J.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • President
  • First
  • Met

• You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Life
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• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Responsibility
  • Abuse
  • Top

• Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Painting
  • Movement
  • Analysis

• Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Success

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Planning
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• Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Friends
  • Existence
  • Second

• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
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• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Write
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• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Girl

• I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Important
  • Animals

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• Every time you're on stage, you look out at a packed house, people all the way up to the top, people having a blast, everybody forgetting about the world for a couple hours. That's a special thing.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Time
  • Progress
  • Impossible

• I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Dark
  • Labyrinth

• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

  

  Faith Evans
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