Tionne Watkins Quotes

I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

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• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

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• I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

  

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• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

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• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  

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• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

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• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

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• Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

  

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• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

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• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

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• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

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• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

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• I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

  

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• I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'

  

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• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

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• I don't want to be submerged by depression.

  

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• At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

  

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• Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose that's why I was always intrigued by, and terribly envious of men who had no trouble at all in bedding a vast variety of desirable women.

  

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• Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!

  

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• My first reaction to being pigeonholed or pushed into certain confines is to be like, 'No, I'm the opposite,' you know? Like, don't put me in a stereotypical black-girl category, because I'm not like that; I'm doing this thing over here.

  

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• It is when children start to question their happiness that they lose it and grow up.

  

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• I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Work
  • God
  • Children