Jazmine Sullivan Quotes
I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
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The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.
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I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang.
