Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes

Being vulnerable was difficult for me at first because I've said things in my songs about how I felt that I never told anybody.

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• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Always
  • Loved

• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • God
  • Write

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Spoken

• Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Guy

• I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Stories
  • Old
  • Functioning

• I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Respect
  • Cool
  • Radio

• Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • You
  • Someone
  • Again

• There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Job
  • Song

• If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Stage

• You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Drama

• At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said 'Psst!'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• -what an odd thing it is, that the indications of terror are usually ludicrous !

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

• My brothers, They never went blind for what they did, but I may as well have. In the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son, I had one more stupid question.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • May
  • Father
  • Question

• It is the party’s steadfast determination to ensure that the people will never have to tighten their belt again.

  

  Kim Jong-un
  • People
  • Party
  • Determination

• If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Good

• There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Kind
  • Passion
  • Marriage

• I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

  

  Pervez Musharraf

• Everybody spoke English in my class, and they would turn to me and say, "What's going on in your country?" I would try to explain to Austrians, Poles, Australians, Israelis, Costa Ricans - people from all over the world - what was going on in our country. I would have to say, "I don't know what's going on, either. It's pretty evenly divided in our country. Sometimes one part's on top, and other times, the other faction is on top, and right now it's just crazy. We hate it as much as you do."

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Crazy

• It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Balance

• The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.

  

  Nikki Glaser
  • Camera
  • Comedian
  • Onstage

• Being vulnerable was difficult for me at first because I've said things in my songs about how I felt that I never told anybody.

  

  Khalid