Sharon Jones (Sharon Lafaye Jones) Quotes

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• With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Today
  • See
  • Situation

• I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Unexpected

• I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Work
  • Great
  • Passion

• I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Like
  • Doing
  • Learnt

• A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Famous
  • Saying
  • Radio

• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Women
  • History

• You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
  • Christian

• Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Most

• Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Fear
  • Confidence

• I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • World
  • Good
  • Night

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
  • Care
  • Modern

• While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Alien
  • Fields
  • Others

• I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Play
  • Judge
  • Produce

• If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Body

• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • College
  • Rock
  • Honest

• I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Thought

• An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Mirror

• If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

  

  Allison Mackie
  • Time
  • Criticism
  • Useful

• If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Write
  • Interested

• One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Done
  • Giving

• If I can utilise anything, I'll utilise it.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Anything
  • I Can

• I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

  

  Sharon Jones
  • Want
  • Give
  • Coming Back