Jordin Sparks Quotes

There are a lot of parallels to the 'Sparkle' story and my story.

Jordin Sparks

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• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Try
  • Aim
  • Jerusalem

• I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

  

  Felicia Day
  • You
  • Day
  • Personality

• Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Support
  • Drunk
  • Statistics

• Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Christian

• I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Support
  • Young

• For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Rest

• Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Just
  • Stock
  • Trade

• I'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. That is what I have: what has kept me doing right and has provided me with the chances and the attitude and the skills to do this.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Faith
  • Singing
  • Attitude

• Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • Up
  • Country
  • Black

• I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Friends

• For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah!

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Being the face of 'Pink' is the greatest gig ever. The company has become like a little family for me in N.Y.C. I am constantly working with new people, and every day feels like the first day of school.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • People
  • Family
  • School

• I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.

  

  Elle Fanning
  • She
  • Food
  • Beginning

• I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

  

  Ali Hewson
  • People
  • Shine
  • Sparkle

• In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Business

• The best thing about the Congress is that it is the last place where you can have face-to-face interviews and interaction with the newsmakers themselves.

  

  Bob Schieffer

• Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Up
  • Long

• My dad had a candy-apple red sparkle drag boat with a giant hemi engine in it that he raced professionally. The sound of that engine was the most incredible sound ever.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Dad
  • Red
  • Boat

• The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Water

• Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Children
  • Why
  • True

• I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
  • Live
  • Country

• I'm not too good at being fake or being somebody else.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Good
  • Fake

• There are a lot of parallels to the 'Sparkle' story and my story.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Sparkle