Grace Jones Quotes

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

Grace Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMusicWalkHappyMeDoing

I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

Joe Russo

I AmViewArtistPoint Of ViewSee

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

John Burnside

TruthBlessingMyselfPeopleMe

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Robert M. Hutchins

CommunicationCommunityIdeasWorld

I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The rest of us enjoyed eating - on special occasions - chicken or fish or mutton.

Amitava Kumar

FamilyMotherEatingRestFishUp

I do not write, I build.

Alvar Aalto

BuildWrite

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

Stephen Cole Kleene

WorkChurchYearGotSecondUntil

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

Stephen Hawking

WaitEngineeringProcessSlowDNA

A lot of places in Las Vegas are big boxes of stuff. The hotels I've built have had, for lack of a better term, a soul.

Steve Wynn

SoulBetterVegasPlacesBigBoxes

I don't think I can create anything of lasting value unless it comes from the heart.

Rodney Crowell

HeartValueThinkI CanCreate

I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.

Michelle Gagnon

FriendCharacterMeDoingNeverOut

Since the era of 'Sherlock Holmes,' private detectives had long been able to influence cases on their own. But the online detective, who had no sort of professional training or even long practice, is a purely modern phenomenon. The Internet changed everything by letting anyone become a self-appointed 'expert' on a case.

Michelle Dean

TrainingPracticeInfluenceInternet

Creating a sustainable, economic, social, and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.

Jared Polis

OpportunitySucceedMissionCreating

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