LaToya Jackson Quotes
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.
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I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
