Susan Boyle (Susan Magdalane Boyle) Quotes

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

Susan Boyle

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• I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Society
  • Just
  • Opinions

• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Door
  • Sugar

• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Patience

• We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Age
  • College

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Ideas
  • More

• I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Money
  • Song

• The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Death
  • Question
  • Agenda

• In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Great
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

  

  Quintilian
  • Good
  • Man
  • Memory

• There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • God
  • True

• When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.

  

  Jann Klose
  • People
  • Music
  • Diversity

• Women are the overwhelming majority of the workers providing long-term support to seniors and people with disabilities. As a result, women are the ones most affected by legislative decisions on long-term care.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Long
  • Women

• I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Star

• My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Mercy

• There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Chance
  • Period
  • Scared

• Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

  

  Quintus Tullius Cicero
  • God
  • Future
  • Chance

• Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Women
  • Power
  • Health

• Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.

  

  Sue Naegle
  • Experience
  • Development
  • Series

• Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Values
  • For Her

• I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

  

  Susan Boyle
  • Chance
  • Professional
  • Singer