Jessye Norman Quotes

I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.

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• As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Way
  • Thoughts
  • Emotional

• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Lose

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Work
  • Men
  • Crazy

• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Inspire

• Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Long
  • Everyday
  • Decisions

• I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Teammates

• My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Social
  • Opportunities
  • Youth

• Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Future
  • Past
  • Focus

• Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • Women
  • Culture

• Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Father
  • Confidence
  • Cat

• I Boswell happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Words
  • Opportunity

• Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Democracy

• If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Balance

• I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • People
  • Different

• Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Time
  • Career
  • Hate

• Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Good
  • Game
  • Learning

• Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros are also acceptable.

  

  Luke Harding
  • War
  • Cold

• My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

  

  Kanye West
  • Human
  • Pressure
  • Human being

• I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company

• The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

  

  Alan Autry
  • People
  • Key
  • Rebuilding

• I'm definitely gaining new fans, and that's the key of any success... gain more love.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Success

• I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.

  

  Jessye Norman