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

• Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• 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

• What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Error
  • Conversion

• The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Want
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• Every moment in life can be interpreted as a risk, depending on our outlook - and level of obsessive- compulsive disorder! I do my best to depend on my gut. If you sit with a decision long enough, your gut/soul will tell you what path to take.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Life
  • Long
  • Soul

• There is a certain depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation: the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time. One cannot bear to live through another loss of function, and sometimes friends and family cannot bear to watch. An unspoken, unbridgeable divide may widen. Even if you are still who you were, you cannot actually fully be who you are.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Existence

• Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • People
  • Different
  • Movie

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

  

  Lizzo