Somebody Quotes

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.

I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

The atom was unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have signalled somebody in a dimension which is sharing space with us very closely.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?