Jordin Sparks Quotes
With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'Jordin Sparks
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
Sally Hawkins -
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
Rafael Nadal -
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
Walter Kirn -
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
Tabitha King
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu -
Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
Ina Garten -
I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
Victor Pinchuk -
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
Walter Dean Myers -
I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
Rand Paul -
There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
Queen Latifah -
Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
Warren Ellis -
Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
Dan Buettner -
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone -
I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
Rachel Joyce
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Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.
Kirk Kerkorian -
I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks.
Dick Spring -
Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll cry. Life never tells us, the when's or why's. When you've got friends, to wish you well. You'll find your point when. You will exhale.
Whitney Houston -
Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.
Max Casella -
Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.
Seth Godin -
With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'
Jordin Sparks