Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes

I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz. And I did everything to really base it on my speaking voice and to just not try to make it sound pretty.

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• I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Public
  • Politicians

• I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Me
  • King
  • Lion

• It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Wish
  • Myself
  • Child

• Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Knowledge
  • Sometimes
  • Need

• Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Years
  • Old
  • Talk

• You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Time
  • Great
  • You

• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Regardless
  • Legislation

• I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Feeling
  • Need
  • Project

• I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Terrible
  • After
  • Turned

• I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Believe
  • Community

• I want to win championships.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Win
  • Championships

• I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Never

• As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Work
  • Technology

• I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • American
  • Truck
  • Drive

• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  

  Quintilian
  • Impression
  • Fault
  • Excellent

• I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Kind
  • Ideas
  • Planned

• I don't mean to be arrogant, but if we're executing our skills there's not a side that can get close to us.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Skills
  • Side
  • Arrogant

• No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.

  

  Alastair Cook
  • Learning
  • Played
  • Cricket

• Per­ho­nen is not here any­more,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Voice
  • Wings
  • Whispers

• A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • People
  • Guy
  • Nowhere

• I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz. And I did everything to really base it on my speaking voice and to just not try to make it sound pretty.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Voice
  • Sound
  • Jazz