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

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• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Leaving South Africa was very difficult.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Leaving

• Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Time
  • Live
  • Lost

• I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

  

  Lorrie Fair
  • People
  • School

• A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

  

  Arthur Middleton
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• It's one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN's independence.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Understanding

• I get travel-sized versions of all of my essentials. That way, I can stay on the same routine whether I'm home or on the road.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Home
  • Road
  • Travel

• The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Remember

• 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