Lizzo (Melissa Jefferson) Quotes

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

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• I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Time
  • Children
  • Rest

• Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Kind
  • Style

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Again

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Health
  • Medicine

• In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Children
  • Black

• You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Work
  • Money
  • Work Hard

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Technology
  • Process
  • Weapons

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Black
  • Hair
  • Child

• What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Me
  • Worries
  • Professionalism

• I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.

  

  Paula Garces
  • Remember

• It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

  

  David Attenborough

• I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Home
  • Stupid
  • Cows

• Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Life
  • Child
  • Mask

• I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

  

  Lizzo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Business