Jazmine Sullivan Quotes

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
  • Force
  • Used

• I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Inspiring

• Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Experience

• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • School
  • Character
  • You

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Believe
  • Single
  • Day

• I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Men
  • Long

• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Education

• Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Believe
  • Inside

• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Strength

• Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Today

• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Force
  • Jazz

• There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Art
  • Learn
  • Performance

• It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated.

  

  Chuck Connors
  • People
  • Great
  • Proud

• When you begin to read or listen to the Holy Scriptures, pray to God thus: "Lord Jesus Christ, open the ears and eyes of my heart so that I may hear Thy words and understand them, and may fulfill Thy will." Always pray to God like this, that He might illumine your mind and open to you the power of His words. Many, having trusted in their own reason, have turned away into deception.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • God
  • Reason
  • Pray

• I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Comfort Zone

• We all are just people, and something happens, and we make a decision as a result when something happens, and it could be a poor choice or a good choice or anywhere in between. But we make that decision in the moment, and we live with the consequences.

  

  Clare-Hope Ashitey
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

  

  Jazmine Sullivan
  • People