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Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1968

Topics

Time People Me Control Think Feel

My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so that's when I kind of fell in love with acting.

Jessica Barth

Love Father Time Acting Movies Kind

It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.

Andrea Jung

Daughter I Am Me Start Deep You

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

John Oliver

Home Pressure Feel Trying You More

I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player.

John McEnroe

Eye Chance Problem Year Look Back

The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Voice Long Rhythm Air Lived Got

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Louis Farrakhan

Family I Am Year Differences Go Our

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Joseph Butler

Alone Cool Care Self-Love Security

What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.

Jonny Greenwood

People Writing Decisions Enjoy You

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

Dinah Shore

Just Because Never Up Social Just

My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we've turned down at this point. But, I think it's really important to do the right thing next.

David Slade

Do The Right Thing Me Think Down

I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

Chrissie Hynde

Road Feel Nothing Band Always Stage

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

Brian Greene

Science Discipline Ideas Show Were