Sharon Jones (Sharon Lafaye Jones) Quotes

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

Sharon Jones

• Music
• Happiness
• Healed

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• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Experience
  • Theater
  • Cinema

• I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lucky
  • Got
  • Seasons

• I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

  

  Kanye West
  • Band
  • Always
  • British

• I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • Business
  • Clothes

• I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fall

• Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Change
  • Shoes
  • Without

• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Up
  • Mistakes
  • Back

• I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Team
  • Artist
  • Better

• Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.

  

  Kajol
  • Heart
  • Kids
  • Feeling

• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Liberty

• 'Starman' was one of my favorite movies growing up.

  

  Benji Hughes
  • Up
  • Growing

• Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • People
  • Vision
  • Courage

• Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • War
  • Enemy

• To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

  

  Polykarp Kusch
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

  

  Tadeusz Kantor
  • Time

• At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Think
  • You

• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• All music is beautiful.

  

  Billy Strayhorn
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

  

  Sharon Jones
  • Music
  • Happiness
  • Healed