Naturi Naughton (Naturi Cora Maria Naughton) Quotes
I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.
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Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
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If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
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The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
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I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.
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I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.
