Jazmine Sullivan Quotes

Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

Jazmine Sullivan

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• The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Everyone

• I am not cocky or real showboatish.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Showboatish

• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Blessed
  • Enemies
  • Brilliant

• When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Country
  • You
  • Travel

• But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Truth

• I believe I deserve everything that could maybe happen. And I don't think that's a cocky thing to say because I've worked really hard, and I've never bitten the hand that fed me, and I've always been really respectful.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Cocky

• I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• The first album was more born from busking - they were the 'me-and-my-guitar' songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts changes you. You look out at those audiences and start to think, 'OK, I need to write some music that's a little bit bigger.'

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Music
  • Road

• If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

  Charles B. Rangel

• I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I work hard. I work 24/7.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Work
  • Cocky

• I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

  

  Aly Raisman
  • Cocky

• I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

  

  Mary Ann Mobley
  • Up
  • Road
  • Cocky

• If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

  

  Craig Shirley
  • Past
  • Stop

• In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Women
  • Children
  • Today

• I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • September

• I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.

  

  Lorenzo Lamas
  • Teenager
  • Cocky

• It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Believe
  • Respect
  • Fashion

• A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

  

  Mary Kay Blakely
  • School
  • May
  • She

• I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

  

  Jonas Armstrong
  • Job
  • Hood
  • Cocky

• All I can think is that the owners of Chick-Fil-A have decided they have had enough, that they're just going to focus on selling chicken sandwiches to as many people as they can, and they figure that keeping their views about marriage to themselves is better than having a bunch of angry activists on your doorstep.

  

  Mike Gallagher
  • People
  • Enough
  • Decided

• I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Power

• From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

  

  Jazmine Sullivan
  • Cocky