Jhene Aiko (Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo) Quotes

There’s no slowing down as the globe spins ‘round and ‘round. You gotta keep going.

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Men
  • Family
  • Hand

• Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Example

• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Best

• The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Time
  • History
  • Me

• The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Country
  • High

• 'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Choices
  • Happen
  • Fact

• I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • Family
  • Always

• I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Destination

• Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop

  

  LL Cool J
  • Stop
  • Hard
  • Hip Hop

• My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Police
  • Guys
  • NBA

• The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Generation
  • Novelties
  • Resuscitated

• I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

  

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal
  • Story
  • Extraordinary
  • Survived

• Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.

  

  Blind Lemon Jefferson
  • Grave
  • Clean
  • Favor

• I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

  

  Elizabeth Swados
  • People
  • Look
  • Musical Instruments

• I feel like I would be a hypocrite not to use my platform to speak up for people who are facing oppression in this country. I did it and I still do it because I believe it's worth letting people know that if we do this together, if we stand up together we can make change.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Change
  • I Believe
  • Oppression

• I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Electricity
  • Keep Going

• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Want
  • Party

• There’s no slowing down as the globe spins ‘round and ‘round. You gotta keep going.

  

  Jhene Aiko
  • Keep Going
  • Globe
  • Slowing