Tones and I (Toni Watson) Quotes

People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.

Tones and I

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• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Challenges

• Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

  

  Gale Norton
  • People
  • Birds
  • Plants

• It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • People
  • Feel
  • Ways

• I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Myself

• I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Help
  • Feeling

• If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organizations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People

• We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Distance

• I follow all these fashion blogs that are cool and inspire me. I'm not really obsessed with anyone except for the people that I like romantically. I get excited when they post. Sometimes I like to stalk my exes.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Cool

• All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.

  

  David Morrissey
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

  

  Neville Marriner
  • People

• When I do things that don't feel pure or make any moves that I don't feel like represent me or who I am, it makes me feel like I wanna throw up. So I just do me, and I guess people just take that how they do.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • People
  • Up

• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • People

• My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.

  

  Doug Liman
  • People
  • God

• Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • People
  • Music

• People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

  

  Azim Premji
  • People
  • Money
  • Power

• Someone said Anderson Silva and GSP would be a $12 million fight. I told people that for $12 million, I'd fight them both right now. At the same time. People took that as 'He's going to fight again.' It was a joke. But if you came up with $12 million, yeah, of course I will fight again.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

  

  John Lee Hancock
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • American
  • America

• Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • American
  • History
  • Today

• 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Special

• People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.

  

  Tones and I
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