LaToya Jackson Quotes
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I would like to direct.
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My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I'm not just in this race so you will remember my name at some future date. I'm not here now for some next time. I am not bidding now for your consideration for some vague convention in 1984- perhaps when I've mellowed a bit. My time is now and now is no time for mellow men!
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and his grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.
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Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
