Nelly Furtado Quotes

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

Nelly Furtado

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• I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Proud
  • Youth
  • Walk

• The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Real
  • Change
  • Action

• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Credit

• I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Stories
  • Books

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Famous

• I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • America
  • Indian

• I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • House
  • Kid

• It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Mind
  • Impossible
  • Rejection

• The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Moving
  • Child
  • Forgotten

• At a earlier age, I was kind of into a pretty large scope or range of music from Hieroglyphics and the Hobo Junction guys and all that to like a lot of stuff that was in New York like Diamond D, Nas, Brand Nubian, of course Biggie, OC, Organized Confusion, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, who I just saw recently, and they killed it.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Music
  • Age
  • Soul

• I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Long
  • Live

• I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Heroes

• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • School
  • American

• Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Years
  • Wall
  • Win

• It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Growing
  • Blue

• Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding

• I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.

  

  Drew Pomeranz

• Eternity is to us as time, the age to come, the continuation, the manifestation, and perfection of our present and true existence.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • Existence
  • Eternity
  • Continuation

• Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Value
  • Leadership
  • Connection

• I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Story
  • Professional
  • Writer

• Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

  

  Nelly Furtado