Tionne Watkins Quotes

Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Hollywood
  • Promoting
  • Fashionista

• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Art
  • Energy
  • End

• Decision – making is very scary for me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Scary

• Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I would love to do some theater.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Some

• When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Know
  • Passion

• I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Me
  • Passionate

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • Done
  • Pride

• The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Why
  • Best

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • High
  • You
  • Brain

• The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Life
  • Long
  • My Life

• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Freedom
  • Progress
  • Diversity

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Rules

• Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Up
  • Long

• Bigger is always better.

  

  Adam Savage

• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

  

  Brandon Lee
  • Discipline
  • Search

• Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • High
  • Pain
  • Tolerance