Joss Stone (Joscelyn Eve Stoker) Quotes

I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because I can't bloody remember it.

Joss Stone

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• I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

  

  Edan Lepucki
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• An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
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• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
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• In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

  

  Flume
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• I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Believe
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• I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Great
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• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
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• I like to stay home with my family.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Home
  • Like

• The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Development

• 'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Great
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  • Character

• Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

  

  Barney Frank
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• I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.

  

  Halima Aden
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• We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  

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• Every need got an ego to feed.

  

  Bob Marley
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• Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
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  • Race
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• We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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• You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Long
  • Learn

• I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because I can't bloody remember it.

  

  Joss Stone
  • Learn
  • Forget
  • Quick