38 quotes found
Singer and actress · American · 1984
American singer and actress (born 1984)
“I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.”
“Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.”
“Even in my own time and in my own life, I have witnessed a revolution.”
“We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.”
“Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.”
“When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.”
“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”
“Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others...”
“The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I d...”
“I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped ...”
“I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher ...”
“Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it hel...”
“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.”
“It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the ...”
“I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the...”
“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”
“Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.”
“In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race ...”
“My sister and I - she's a musician - we jam all the time. We always play around for giggles with stuff that seem unconventional or stuff that seems funny. A lot of the stuff sometimes is just a res...”
“It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.”
“My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.”
“It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.”