CeCe McDonald Quotes

I've faced worse things in my life than prison

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• I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Me
  • Grew

• Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Car

• I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Truth
  • Song
  • Gift

• I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Sometimes

• I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Enemy
  • Moment
  • Understand

• 'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Summer
  • Kid
  • Point

• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Parents

• The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Special

• It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Thoughts
  • Choice
  • Express

• We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • House
  • Society
  • Summer

• I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Great
  • Job
  • Think

• Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Never
  • Wear
  • Jeans

• I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Music
  • Art
  • Day

• I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Her

• You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • You
  • Personality
  • Take

• The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Organization

• I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Education
  • Gains
  • Technical

• Morality is the weakness of the mind.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Mind
  • Weakness
  • Morality

• It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • God
  • Change

• “But the daily tasks and prayers of men, the ancient city tired from having lived too long, the ravaged marble and worn out bells, all those things oppressed by the weight of memories, all those perishable things were rendered humble in comparison with the tremendous blazing Alps that tore at the sky with their thousand unyielding spikes, a vast, solitary city that was waiting, perhaps, for a new race of Titans.”

  

  Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • Things
  • Memories
  • Alps

• For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Technology
  • Advertising

• I've faced worse things in my life than prison

  

  CeCe McDonald
  • Things
  • Prison
  • Worse