Lizzo (Melissa Jefferson) Quotes
I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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To be honest, I wasn't the best stand-up comic.
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From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
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I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
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I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.
