Tionne Watkins Quotes

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

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• The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Gift

• In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Home
  • Feeling

• When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Home
  • Want
  • Person

• Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Long
  • Experience
  • College

• I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Life
  • Home
  • Help

• I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Want
  • Irony
  • Mustache

• Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Government
  • Mission
  • Plans

• There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Fighting
  • Act

• Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • People
  • History
  • Political

• And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• What troubles me about the 'hostile workplace' category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Feminist
  • Workplace

• The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Art

• Pussycat, pussycat,You're so thrilling and I'm so willingto care for you.So go and make up you big little pussy cat eyes.

  

  Hal David
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Cat

• I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Bold

• Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Future
  • Food

• When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.

  

  Angeles Mastretta
  • World
  • Good
  • Wife

• If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

  

  Minor White
  • Giving
  • Worth
  • Cameras

• I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • School
  • Money

• I think, a lot of time, when I'm making art, I'm trying to get into a state of childlike play, where I'm not self-conscious; I'm not worried about what the outcome is going to be. I'm just having fun.

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Art

• I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

  

  Iyanla Vanzant
  • Help
  • Talk
  • Lived

• I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC