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Tionne Watkins Quotes

One thing, parents: you need to realize is you've got to stop letting artists raise your kids. You're the parent. Why don't you monitor what your child wears? Ariana Grande didn't sign on to be a role model.

Tionne Watkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 26, 1970

Topics

Child Parents Parent You Role Model

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

Joe Jamail

Me Lawyer Help Need Being Means

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

Jock Sturges

People Know Wiser Need See Minority

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

John Abizaid

Good People Enough Feeling Say

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Andre Agassi

Feel You Lose Special Something

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

John Lurie

Education Myself Musicians Career

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

John Howe

Life Thought Away Folly Dread Once

I need my career. That's what validates me.

Anita Baker

Me Career Need

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

Amy Cuddy

Family Moment Present Down Now Out

I just never want to do anything that's going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.

Trip Lee

Song Compromise Want Never Anything

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

Rod Stewart

Hide Nothing Got Well Absolutely

Family is very important. Me and my brothers were very close when I was growing up. We did a lot of things together to survive. If you have family behind you, the sky's the limit.

Michael Oher

Family Together Sky Me Growing Up

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.

Joshua Malina

Mother Said Actor Call Jews Knew