Misty Copeland Quotes

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

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• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Mom

• As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

  

  Pierre Dukan
  • Food

• I get very angry when I'm hungry and there isn't time for lunch.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Time
  • Angry

• Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.

  

  Brian Grazer

• Just because you can wear a micro-miniskirt it doesn't mean you should. You don't need to show your midriff, either, if you're over 40.

  

  Cindy Crawford

• We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Golf

• An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Community
  • Quality

• I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

  

  Amy Adams

• I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Study

• I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

  

  David Boreanaz
  • Weekend

• Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • Different

• Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • People
  • God
  • Religious

• Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.

  

  Will Self
  • World
  • Writing
  • Problem

• I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • Thinking
  • Government
  • Growth

• Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.

  

  David M. Raup
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Science

• An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

  

  Joseph Addison

• On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes of the magnificent public garden of the city of Nancy make the words reverberate; coupling, condensation, grignardization. Moreover, their clothes stay impregnated with strong and characteristic odours; we follow the initiates of Hermes by their scent. In such an environment, how is it possible not to be productive?

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Science
  • Strong
  • Garden

• The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

  

  Misty Copeland
  • Thinking
  • Fixed
  • Misty