Lizzo (Melissa Jefferson) Quotes
I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.
