Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Think
  • Wall

• People have to evolve.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Evolve

• Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stand

• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • American
  • Chaos

• I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Women
  • Together

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • American
  • Funny

• I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Love
  • Honest

• Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Me
  • Eye
  • Human

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Party
  • Government

• I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Security
  • Terrible

• The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • People
  • Trust
  • Internal

• When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.

  

  Bo Bice
  • People
  • Work
  • Practice

• Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

  

  Confucius
  • Lost
  • Learning
  • Labor

• I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Concerned
  • Else

• I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Think
  • Me