Rita Ora Quotes

I'm very spontaneous. I go with my gut.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Success
  • Contribution
  • Offended

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Kids
  • See

• It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Old

• As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Women
  • Happy

• Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • People
  • Study
  • Brother

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Up
  • Great
  • Love

• In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Family
  • America
  • Sorry

• For me, fashion is not about reality.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Fashion

• I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Art
  • Goal
  • Foundation

• It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Just
  • OK
  • Just Be

• I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Important
  • Book

• I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

  

  La India
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Depression

• I am reverential to great stars. I don't want sexual congress with them. The writer in me reveres the artist in them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great

• The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

  

  Lillian Smith
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Hurt

• Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Jesus
  • Forgive
  • Prostrate

• Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Forget
  • Prince

• My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

  

  Arthur Christiansen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Heaven

• Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from one to another, and that becomes the musicality of Parkour.

  

  David Belle
  • Moments

• I'm very spontaneous. I go with my gut.

  

  Rita Ora