Ledisi Quotes
Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I get homesick.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
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One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
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Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
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Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.
