Norah Jones Quotes

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

Norah Jones

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MusicDaughterMeThinkFairWell

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

Jean Genet

GreatPeopleWindGhettoShameOver

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

Steve Wozniak

TimeUpThingsCatchSpare TimeHad

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.

Sia

FutureHopeTogetherStandCreating

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

Rob Sheffield

LiveShoesRedGameGuitarReach

One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of color give us feedback. We have to build our stamina to just be humble and bear witness to the pain we've caused.

Robin DiAngelo

WorkHumblePainPeopleColorWhite

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

Miguel de Icaza

LanguageIndependentProjectKeep

It wasn't the best childhood, but I did my best to make it good on my end... I didn't let it pull me down.

Logic

GoodBestChildhoodMeEndDown

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.

Jay S. Walker

ImaginationBrainThinkFeelCreate

When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

Diane Ackerman

RainStormSometimesSizeSeeTown

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Dr. Seuss

RespectSmallPersonMatterHow

In high school for a couple years we did archery.

Suzanne Collins

SchoolHigh SchoolYearsHighDid

Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'

Sean Covey

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