Jessye Norman Quotes

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • War
  • Cold

• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Where
  • Manager
  • My Own

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

  

  Jack Black
  • Good
  • Music
  • Rock

• I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Believe
  • You
  • Actions

• I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Start

• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Talk
  • News
  • Radio

• Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Character
  • Change
  • Moment

• The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Great
  • Country
  • Education

• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Believe
  • America

• I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Never
  • Name
  • Cuba

• I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really like to spend my money on accessories like bags, shoes, belts. I don't really spend on things I can make.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Up
  • Money
  • Myself

• Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Stop

• My mum and dad were incredibly supportive - although I suspect my dad would have preferred me to go the university route. However, I know they were extremely proud when I won the 2011 BAFTA Best Actor for playing comedian Eric Morecambe in 'Eric and Ernie.'

  

  Daniel Rigby
  • Dad
  • Proud

• Personally, I don't see myself as a sex symbol, but when people say that I get very proud, because I think people's sexuality is something very important.

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Important
  • Proud
  • Sex symbol

• As Chief Product Officer, I lead our product team to create simple, intuitive user experiences.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Team
  • Simple

• I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Proud
  • Humble