Jordin Sparks Quotes
My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.
Quotes to Explore
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
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Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
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So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?
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My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.
