My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don’t think I would have been very happy. I’d be in front of the jury singing.
JENNIFER LOPEZWhen I was in my 20s I wasn’t sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don’t have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, So what if I fall, so what? I’m going to get back up.
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You have got to love yourself first. You have got to be ok on your own before you can be ok with somebody else. You have got to value yourself and know that you are worth everything.
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Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.
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Just because you dress sexy doesn’t mean you’re a bad girl; it just means you know how to dress.
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The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.
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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.
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The minute I feel nervousness or anxiety or fear, I go, ‘No, no, that’s not a thought that I need to have right now. Everything’s great, everything’s good, you’re going to be fine’.
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I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.
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When I face myself, I go, “You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That’s what we’re gonna do right now.
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You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
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You can’t take life for granted.
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Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.
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When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that’s what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.
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The media – they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.
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You can’t let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.
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Mommy. It’s just the one thing you don’t want to mess up.
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I’m feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover.
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Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.
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You’ve gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can’t forget to take care of ourselves.
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I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there’ll be no time when I feel I’ve done it all.
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People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I’m shaped this way, I must be scandalous – like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it’s just the opposite.
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When I was in my 20s I wasn’t sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don’t have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, So what if I fall, so what? I’m going to get back up.
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This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I’ve worked with Robert Redford.
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I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.
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I’m very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things. As far as being powerful, I guess I’m comfortable with it. It’s not really how I think of myself.
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Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.
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Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can’t really have a healthy relationship.
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