Lele Pons (Eleonora "Lele" Pons Maronese) Quotes
I measure success depending on the brands that come to you, the opportunities that you get, also the feedback that you get from people.
Quotes to Explore
-
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
-
I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
-
I'm not Cinderella.
-
I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
-
I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
-
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
-
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
-
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
-
To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
-
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
-
We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
-
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
-
I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
-
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
-
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
-
I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
-
When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
-
I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
-
Venturing further than the length of your sightOut past the reach of your beginningsThere is a gamble in each proud act of flightBut the losses pale before the winningsCircling and diving with this freedom you’ve foundIllusion blows apart and scattersThere is no darkness in this place that we're boundLove is the only thing that matters
-
We trained like we fight.
-
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.
-
When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.
-
I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.
-
I measure success depending on the brands that come to you, the opportunities that you get, also the feedback that you get from people.
