Jennifer Nettles Quotes

I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.

Jennifer Nettles Sugarland

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• I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Years
  • Through
  • Over

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Moral

• Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Always
  • Lady
  • Spider

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Come
  • Disappear
  • Many

• Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Expression

• The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Long
  • American
  • Black

• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Way
  • You
  • Same

• Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • Test
  • Cricket

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Angry
  • Attacks

• I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Past

• But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Know
  • Calendar
  • Christmas time

• A great leader should make it clear to her team members that as a matter of culture, her job is to replace herself. A new hire should know from the outset that she will ultimately have to bring in new talent to replace herself so that she can personally better herself and achieve loftier goals.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Great
  • She
  • Job

• I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Art
  • Responsibility