Grace Jones Quotes

I always had to mask my emotions. I could never show that I missed my mom or my dad, especially when they moved to America. My grandparents were tough. I was not allowed to receive letters that had not been read before. Everything was controlled - everything!

Grace Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
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  • Birth: May 19, 1948

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It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

Jenny Holzer

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I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.

John Gregory Dunne

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There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.

Meghan McCain

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I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Jeb Bush

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The truth is that you can't really tell how anybody's doing in the tech business for at least five or 10 years.

Steve Ballmer

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The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

Sun Myung Moon

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I love pop music. Who doesn't?

Shirley Manson

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I didn't survive because I was stronger than others. I survived because my family and friends helped me to survive. They took my place. My job is to give them back their dignity, tell their story, and say their names.

Rithy Panh

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If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.

Roger Ailes

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Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.

Mona Eltahawy

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Lord Byron

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