Jennifer Nettles Quotes

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

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• I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Greek
  • Cook
  • Dish

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Enough
  • Hollywood
  • Pictures

• I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Me
  • Going
  • Eating

• I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Movies
  • Admire
  • Risks

• Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

  Ford Frick
  • Decision
  • Sound
  • Anger

• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Impossible
  • Common
  • Laborers

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Start
  • Him

• The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Good
  • Game
  • Pretty

• I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Life
  • Idea
  • Independence

• Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.

  

  Ice T
  • Mean
  • Thought
  • Rap

• I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • God
  • Integrity
  • Thank God

• I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Find

• Basil Cardinal Hume in: Guidelines for Opus Dei within the Diocese of Westminster, 2 December 1981 : Initiative and activities of Opus Dei, within the diocese of Westminster, should carry a clear indication of their sponsorship and management.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Management
  • December

• Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using , the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Poetry

• I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought, 'You could be absorbed in it - it's so seductive, you might lose your own search for identity.' Then, when I did finally go to Europe, I was able to resist it because I had established my own identity.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Identity
  • Search
  • Seductive

• A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

  

  James Thurber

• This idea of mutual appreciation and partnerships and investment in our people is very important to me and will continue to be important.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • People
  • Important
  • Appreciation

• For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

  

  David Cannadine
  • Compassion
  • Active
  • Righteous

• I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland