My Way Quotes - Page 34

• I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Italian, Kitchen, Meat

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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• I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'

  John Lydon

  Nice, Insults You, Say Anything

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• Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

  George Michael

  Book, Way, History Books

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• I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

  Kylie Minogue

  Tunes, Way

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• I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.

  Mandy Moore

  Fun, Home, Writing

  "Moore Rules Out Romantic Comedies" by wenn.com, January 26, 2011.

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• I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Thinking, Giving

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

  Jason Mraz

  Journey, Laughing, Singing

  "Talk Asia". www.cnn.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

  Jack Nicholson

  Way, Lost, Made

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• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

  Anais Nin

  Teamwork, War, Fate

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• Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, Regret, Seven Months

  "Conan O'Brien quips about next career move: nudity" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, Marla Lehner, www.cnn.com. January 23, 2010.

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• I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Thinking, Ideas

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

  Joel Osteen

  People, Joy, Trying

  "Joel Osteen — Always Taking The High Road". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

  James Patterson

  College, Way, Students

  "James Patterson interview with longtime editor Michael Pietsch". Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.usatoday.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Crazy, Book

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• I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

  Amanda Peet

  Girl, Stars, Thinking

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• I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

  Ron Perlman

  Way

  Interview wih Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2011.

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• When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

  Tom Petty

  Uncles, Real, Glowing

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 2006.

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• I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

  Liz Phair

  Song, People, Giving

  "Liz Phair’s on the lookout for magic in the moment". Interview with John Wenzel, www.denverpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

  Robert Plant

  Way, Historian, Wells

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• I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.

  John C. Reilly

  Nice, Night, Laughing

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• My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

  Christina Ricci

  Movie, Dream, Real

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• You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

  Christina Ricci

  Morning, Way, Mood

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 5, 2012.

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• It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

  ASAP Rocky

  Fashion, Bully, Would Be

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• I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

  Andy Roddick

  Fists, Way, Rooms

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• My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

  Ja Rule

  Spiritual, Practice, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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