Ronald Isley Quotes

I was put here to sing.

Ronald Isley The Isley Brothers

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame

• I don't think about my fame very much.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Think
  • Fame
  • Very

• If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Life
  • Alcohol
  • Marijuana

• My mom could be pretty strict.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Pretty
  • Mom
  • Strict

• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Effort

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Want
  • Hero

• I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Science
  • Process
  • Discovery

• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Deep
  • Thought
  • Enjoy

• Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Star
  • Take

• All of the people are the dependents of Allah.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Allah

• Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Cricket
  • Badminton

• I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Love

• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Courage
  • Being
  • Afraid

• She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Death
  • Lost

• Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?

  

  Jack Vance
  • Real

• The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear; Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.And then, that we have followed them We more than half suspect, So intimate have we become With their dear retrospect.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Distance

• No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Alone
  • Here

• I found it liberating to sing on camera. On stage, you have to indicate having a thought, and the word you are singing must indicate it as well, but on camera, you can have ideas, you can take in all the stimuli that the character would be taking in, there's a freedom you get, and you don't have the obligation to transmit each idea to the back of the house. It felt so much closer to reality for me.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Camera

• The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

  

  Alberto Aguilera Valadez
  • Artist
  • Sing
  • Count

• The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Government
  • Judiciary

• I was put here to sing.

  

  Ronald Isley The Isley Brothers
  • Sing
  • Here