quotes about Just A Girl

“And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.”

“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.”

“Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.”

“Prayer is continual abandonment to God.”

“I'll step in an airport just now, and people will recognize me. I'm in Harlem on 144th and whatever, and people are coming up to me like, "What's up, Chamillionaire?" And seeing it grow is, nothing turning into something, that feeling is a really good feeling.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.”

“Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.”

“But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.”

“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”

“This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.”

Source : "Spring cleaning our lives" by Ellen Goodman, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2002.