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

• There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Connection
  • Circumstances
  • Function

• The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

  

  James Carville
  • Up
  • Party
  • Church

• It is utterly asinine that people continually go to comedy shows without bothering to see if their sensibilities line up with the comedians.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Long
  • Real

• War and, apparently, hurricanes are very good for the oil business. But I've got to believe at a certain point, as a nation, we're going to go in a different direction toward an increased sense of personal responsibility, a lowering of each individual's carbon footprint and a real collaborative effort to help sustain our planet.

  

  Stephen Gaghan
  • Believe
  • Different
  • War

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

  

  Lizzo