Tionne Watkins Quotes

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

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• The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Interesting
  • News

• I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Me
  • Drug
  • Dangerous

• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Society
  • Justice

• The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Young
  • Won
  • Claim

• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Children
  • Love

• Every time you get something, give something away.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Time
  • You
  • Give

• I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Like

• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Compromise

• With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Music
  • Modeling

• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • You
  • Guitar
  • Construction

• My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Shadow
  • Hip Hop

• I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Bad
  • Education

• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Question

• When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Up
  • Trump

• Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Up
  • Peace
  • inspirational

• I have the personality where, although my ego can be healthy, sometimes I also feel like people won't remember me, or they won't know who I am.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • People
  • Remember
  • Personality

• A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Baby

• Next thing I know, there a baby in my ter-litt!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Baby

• I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Baby
  • Crying