Brandy (Brandy Rayana Norwood) Quotes

I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney Houston, like her voice just did something to my spirit.

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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• The only people who never fail are those who never try.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • People
  • Never
  • Try

• Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • High
  • Energy
  • Diet

• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • History
  • Past

• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• I really believe in the idea of the future.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Idea

• I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Outside

• Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Science
  • Independent
  • Review

• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Time
  • Women
  • Best

• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Business
  • America
  • Hope

• It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Light
  • Search
  • Architecture

• I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Hope

• If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Look

• I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.

  

  David Ortiz
  • Mind
  • Career

• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

  

  Matthew Arnold

• After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Creation
  • Reader
  • Poems

• When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

  

  Chalmers Johnson
  • War
  • Action
  • Course

• I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney Houston, like her voice just did something to my spirit.

  

  Brandy
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