Jhene Aiko (Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo) Quotes

Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

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• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Like
  • Beethoven
  • Wagner

• Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Determined

• My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Running
  • Kind
  • Style

• As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Play
  • Said
  • Rules

• I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Ryan Gosling

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Son

• I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Try
  • Healthy
  • Fruit

• I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Question

• When I was younger, I was quite scared of a red lip. But I started listening to '60s French ye-ye pop when I was making 'Sucker.' I was looking at Brigitte Bardot and those kinds of girls. When they were dressed up, it was often a bold red lip.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Red

• I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • American
  • Interesting
  • Chinese

• I have a lot of confidence in myself, and I love that challenge as well. I love going to every competition as the favourite. It's something I relish.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Challenge
  • Confidence
  • Competition

• Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Men
  • Education

• When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I didn't exercise. I worked all the time, went home and went to bed.

  

  Jan Fields
  • Time
  • Home
  • Exercise

• I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • Political
  • Emotional

• When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Fear
  • Fall
  • Sky

• I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.

  

  Gemma Whelan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Empathy

• Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Words
  • Tears
  • Cutting

• How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • People
  • Song
  • Way

• Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

  

  Jhene Aiko
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Make