Jessica Simpson Quotes

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.

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• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Imagination
  • Force
  • Roles

• American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • Band
  • Brilliant

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Talking
  • Fake

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Like
  • Marvel

• If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Think
  • Weakness

• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • World
  • Chinese
  • Tomorrow

• Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Involved
  • Says

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• I am a very private person. I don't like to talk about things till someone asks about them.

  

  Alia Bhatt

• I will always have pain. But I exercise as much as I can, and I find that makes a huge difference. And if my body does seize up, I have a pain plan in place. If it escalates, I go back to my doctor.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • Up
  • Pain
  • Exercise

• One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.

  

  María del Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza
  • Music
  • Live
  • Family

• I noticed that difference early on, like if you were successful in rock 'n' roll, that was a really bad thing, you almost had to hide it. You had these guys selling 200 million records with dirty T-shirts on. I was like, 'Come on, man. Come on. We know you're successful.' Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Music
  • Men

• When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.

  

  Jessica Simpson
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  • Time
  • Good