Toni Braxton Quotes

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

Toni Braxton

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• I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Language
  • Smile

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Water
  • Orange
  • Blossom

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Laws
  • Thieves

• I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Rest

• I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • World
  • Good
  • Night

• I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • Mad
  • Race

• I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Society
  • Party

• I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • End

• Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Crisis
  • Nobody
  • Again

• A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Painting

• I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Good
  • Think
  • Career

• If you're thinking like that - 'Does this person want me for me?' - then you're gonna have a hell of a hard time falling in love, 'cause you're constantly thinking about what they look like on paper.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Person
  • Look

• After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Competition
  • Retiring
  • After

• Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Men
  • Hate
  • Approach

• Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Place
  • Civilization

• When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Stop
  • Film
  • First

• When the Argentine light cruiser Belgrano was hit by two torpedoes from the snout of Conqueror, a British hunter-killer, the enemy escort ships immediately gave chase. They were out of ideas after just five miles. The Royal Navy vessel had approached unseen, fired unseen, and simply disappeared.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Light
  • Enemy

• The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Nice
  • Space
  • Chance

• When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.

  

  Laurie Simmons
  • Great
  • Long
  • Real

• Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Real
  • Waiting
  • Pure

• To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

  

  Toni Braxton