Nomi Ruiz Quotes

New York is very intense. Every time I go back to New York, I'm starting from scratch. You could have all these achievements - records, a tour - and then you get home and get back to the basics. It whips you into shape.

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• Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Family
  • She
  • Think

• It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I'll say anything to live.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Live
  • Say
  • Anything

• Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hurt
  • Effect
  • Terribly

• There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • People
  • Kids
  • Power

• Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Determination
  • Stadiums
  • Yankee Stadium

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Love
  • Forever

• If I am confirmed to this position, my first priority will be to maintain consistency and continuity with the policies established during the Greenspan years.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Priority
  • Position
  • Consistency

• That's what fashion is supposed to do to you, it's supposed to make you happy, make you excited, make you feel good.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Fashion

• I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • People
  • Fun
  • Rest

• I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There will be leaders that inspire young people. I don't think it means that it's over forever, but I'm getting pretty impatient. I'm hoping it comes soon, so that my young people can know that experience that we knew in the '60s, and that the World War II generation knew during the '40s.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Kind
  • Happiness
  • Criticism

• Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Art
  • State
  • Contemplation

• But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Understand

• Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Records
  • Just
  • Promoting

• I think that as far as talent, we have enough to get over the hump. We are just not doing it. You can?t coach it, you can?t preach it. It is just something that players must be willing to do.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Talent
  • Players
  • Hump

• Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Proud

• The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Natural
  • Gods
  • Weak

• New York is very intense. Every time I go back to New York, I'm starting from scratch. You could have all these achievements - records, a tour - and then you get home and get back to the basics. It whips you into shape.

  

  Nomi Ruiz
  • Records
  • Achievements
  • Basics