SZA (Solána Imani Rowe) Quotes

I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.

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• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Movie

• I've had every hair style imaginable.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Had

• I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • American
  • Environment
  • Environmental

• I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • She
  • America

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Best
  • Answer

• Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Place
  • Race
  • Group

• Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Why
  • Decision

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• Teachers alone can't educate young people.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Alone
  • Young

• One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Moving

• I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

  

  Young Thug
  • Years
  • Old
  • Streets

• I'm very humble.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Humble
  • Very

• I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Wine
  • Yoga

• We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

  Gail Devers
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Trust
  • Israel
  • U.S.

• All I wantIs one breakWhich is notMy neck.

  

  J. P. Donleavy

• Parents, family, and friends tell you that you can be whatever you want to be. But what they really mean is whatever you want as long as it fits in their neat, little box. And for a woman exercising her command, that box is restrictive as hell. Destroy that box and the horse it rode in on. Light it on fire for good measure. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  

  Amerie
  • Want
  • To Be
  • Sure

• Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

  

  John Collison
  • Moving

• I think we all carry a depressive streak in us but most people just hide it. A lot of people think that entertainment has to be something loud, cheerful and happy. I don't buy into it. Depression can be very inspiring. At least for me it can be. The quiet aspects of life are very important, because let's face it, life is pretty difficult.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

  

  Lucas Neff
  • Life
  • Happy

• I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.

  

  SZA