Jennifer Nettles Quotes

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

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Let's burn the 99%.

  

  Bill Gates

• The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Solitude

• They came here-the exile and the stranger, brave but frightened-to find a place where a man could be his own man. They made a covenant with this land. Conceived in justice, written in liberty, bound in union, it was meant one day to inspire the hopes of all mankind; and it binds us still. If we keep its terms, we shall flourish.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Justice
  • Brave

• Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great hotels, the fascinating local people, the exciting history of the two contrasting island groups, and the unmatched scenery make these two of the most enticing stopovers.

  

  James A. Michener
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I have become a subscriber for 'Business Week.' It teaches me a lot about business, and I have really started to get into it. I'm interested in business and learning about how everything works.

  

  Marko Jaric
  • Business
  • Learning

• For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

  

  Brian Kernighan
  • People
  • Business
  • Law

• They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company.

  

  Brian Epstein

• In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

  

  Pal Benko
  • Art
  • War
  • Science

• All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Think
  • Things
  • Mad

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

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland