Jessye Norman Quotes

I'm a sloucher, sort of, when nobody's looking.

Jessye Norman

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• I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Day
  • Trump

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Country
  • Meeting

• In India, it's a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Woman

• I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

  

  Mae West
  • Words
  • Action
  • Woman

• If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tennis

• I like to be who I am.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Like

• I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Band
  • Old
  • Hell

• Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Done
  • Better
  • Discussion

• Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • Success
  • Giving

• When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

  

  Taylor Handley
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Horror
  • Slaves

• It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

  

  Conrad Black

• (You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)

  

  Andy Warhol

• One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• The Pope talks so much shit. The Pope was castigating the media for making gays look normal. YEAH, you're a real GOOD judge of normal, with your gold dress and your matching gold hat, living it up in the Vatican with 500 men surrounded by the finest antiques in the world! Queen, please! You live like Versace did!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Important
  • Character

• Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Growth

• You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Mind
  • Help

• When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Control

• I had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like the place where I trust myself the most in the world and felt the most confident.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • World
  • Home
  • Trust

• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Wish

• I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Up
  • Effort
  • Stock

• I'm a sloucher, sort of, when nobody's looking.

  

  Jessye Norman