Jessie J Quotes

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

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• 'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Question
  • First
  • Explore

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Enemy
  • Your
  • Deceive

• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Boy

• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Great
  • Writing
  • School

• Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Living
  • Destruction
  • Ecstasy

• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Good
  • Reality

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • American
  • High
  • Culture

• Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Age
  • Past
  • Teenager

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Gay
  • My Life

• I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feels
  • Right
  • Compare

• I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Different
  • Power
  • Always

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Think
  • Garbage

• I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Society
  • Silence
  • Strategy

• The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

  

  Frederick Reines
  • Peace

• I live in Nashville, and I don't know how many people there would call me country. I really started in punk and anti-folk, but one of the reasons I originally gravitated towards country music is because most of those songs only use three chords. That was the easiest place for me to start, but I'm always trying to expand what I do.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

  

  Jessie J
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  • Music