Kidada Jones Quotes

#1. Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Plato

#2. President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

Timothy Noah

#3. The simple fact is, you are not the point of your life. You are not the star of your show. If you live for yourself, your own comfort, your own glory, your own fame, you will miss out on your very purpose. God created you to bring glory to him.

Tim Challies

#4. I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.

Kidada Jones

#5. I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

Mario Andretti

#6. What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.

Kristen Bell

#7. As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.

Kidada Jones

#8. Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

Kate Bush

#9. Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.

Rashida Jones

#11. Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I love Tinkerbell because she's feisty and about it. She's got swag! She's going to do what she wants to do. I even have a Tinkerbell tattoo, and she is wearing Adidas flip-flops!

Kidada Jones

#13. You're beautiful," he said softly. Simple words. Heavy weight. "There's no reason for you to be jealous of her. You're everything she isn't, and I like it. A lot.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#14. Do you want to set fire to the whole world and burn with it?
Let's do it together. You fix the price.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

Olive Schreiner

#16. I had a dog for 20 years and her name was 'Penny,' so I have a penny necklace.

Kidada Jones

#17. I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

Kidada Jones

#18. Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.

Charles Colson

#19. My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They've always said, 'You're a big girl; figure it out on your own.'

Kidada Jones