Grace Jones Quotes
Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one's guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm still learning my craft.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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I'm a terrible procrastinator.
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I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.
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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.
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Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.
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What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?
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Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends
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My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age - our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: 'Dear God, please don't let him get Ebola.' I'm proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that's not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.
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Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.
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Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.
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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one's guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
