Lizzo (Melissa Jefferson) Quotes

I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.

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• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Art
  • Comeback
  • Ever

• I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Moment
  • Living
  • Nostalgia

• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Angry

• In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Tired

• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Control

• I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Tough

• What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

  

  Ed Lee
  • People
  • Time
  • Community

• The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Thing
  • Analysis
  • Itself

• Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Teeth

• Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Party
  • Beginning
  • End

• I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Money

• 'We're not outside the world, yoz. You know? We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see?'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Live

• One can never do anything so beautiful as nature.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• 'It's all for love... With the love, L.O.V.E.'

  

  Michael Jackson

• I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.

  

  Charli XCX

• My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • Movie

• Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

  

  Andre Malraux
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Enslaved

• Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Earth

• Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.

  

  Lizzo