Jessye Norman Quotes

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

Jessye Norman

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• There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Man
  • Humor

• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Child
  • Insurance
  • Lie

• I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Love
  • Me
  • Air

• I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Effort

• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Night
  • Day
  • Fool

• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • World
  • Disaster

• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Favorite

• I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Up
  • Religious
  • Identity

• I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Write
  • Books
  • Read

• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Play
  • Understand
  • Weapons

• Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Walking
  • Conservative
  • Suits

• I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Car
  • Win
  • Bike

• I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Myself
  • Crisis
  • Therapy

• My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Country
  • Father
  • Poverty

• I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Difficult

• Barack Obama will never ignore our troops.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Never
  • Will
  • Ignore

• It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Death
  • Freedom

• I'm a real goof-ball deep down. It's always been my thing to make people like me.

  

  Rita Ora
  • People
  • Real
  • Deep

• You always have to speak good about the projects you do and you have to see the beauty in them. Sometimes you see them and you're happy with things, or maybe the process was nice and you enjoyed it, and you were happy with that. But when everything gathers - you liked the scripts from the very beginning, the directors, your friends - but then you see the result and you like it - it's beautiful.

  

  Miguel Angel Silvestre
  • Sometimes
  • Process
  • Projects

• In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Action
  • Baseball

• New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

  

  Johnny Carson
  • Time

• It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Country
  • Mind

• I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

  

  Jessye Norman