Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

I remember seeing the movie 'To Sir With Love' when I was a little girl.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

I like to work spontaneously.

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.

If I love a song, I make it mine.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.