Jessica Simpson Quotes

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

Jessica Simpson

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ArtistWantAlwaysThingsTakeDeal

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Jessie J

LifeI AmMeHairThinkMy Life

I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.

Jenny Lewis

MusicJoyListeningThinkMusicians

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

Matt Mullenweg

WorkQualitySomeoneYouKnowNeed

I'm lucky I get to work a lot.

Stephen Root

WorkLuckyGetLot

I believe that a web series allows actors the freedom to express their views.

Rithvik Dhanjani

FreedomBelieveI BelieveWebViews

It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Jordan Peterson

BestPeopleAdmitLeftInterest

I don't pick tournaments to score or rivals or other teams to score against. I'm a striker: every game I play, I want to score.

Diego Costa

GamePlayWantAgainstScoreRivals

The only thing police patrol cops - in certain situations - are expert at is spotting anomalies. When you are a black person that is driving in a place that you stick out, that's all they're going to see.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

Clint Smith

LifeDeathHumanityTablePersonUs

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

Craig Brewer

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There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

Clayton M. Christensen

SuccessBusinessHappyPeopleWill

Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

Ariel Pink

ConfidenceHumbleThinkShortEarly

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