Jesse McCartney Quotes
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.
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If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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All music industry places are the same, really. They have the same dynamics and the same concerns and the same needs.
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The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up.
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No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.
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Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.
