Nicola Roberts Quotes

I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.

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• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Inspire
  • Bold
  • Timidity

• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Age
  • Society

• What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Equal

• I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Artist
  • Process

• This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Me

• Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Real
  • Worry
  • Fight

• If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Time
  • House
  • You

• I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Country
  • Think
  • Rock

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Pictures
  • Too

• Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Money
  • Idea

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Right

• At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Age

• A hard man is good to find.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Find

• Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Education
  • Health

• Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Book
  • Think

• As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a lot of time getting' to the point. You're saying it with as pure a word or phrase as you can. That's the part that was craft. You refine and refine and refine. Maybe that's why the songs still hang on, because they're very pure. For one thing, they're very short. "Bad Moon Rising" is like 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I would try to do everything as quickly and with as little extra as possible. It was a challenge.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I don't eat a lot of junk food anymore, but I sure remember it. I used to go through boxes of Little Debbies. I liked Star Crunch, and of course those oatmeal pies.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Star

• I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Country
  • America
  • I Loved You

• Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

  

  Mercedes McCambridge
  • Waiting
  • Patient
  • Alcoholics

• I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.

  

  Nicola Roberts
  • Work
  • Want
  • Passionate