Jo Dee Marie Messina quotes Born: 08/25/1970 Country: usa

• He really tore my heart apart but he gave me some good material (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to give. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I gave to my sister. She has four little babies and bought an old house and it needed repairs. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I was on the verge of bankruptcy. I took a year and a half to make my second album (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Tim called and said 'I've written this song, it's perfect for you.' Believe it or not he dropped it off in my mail box and said 'see if you like it.' I was out of town. We recorded if after we finished the album. I had to bump a song off to fit it on. It ended up being the first single and a big hit. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I remember when it was just the three Emcees and then Flash put Mr Ness down. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan . (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Thats why my biggest problems were with LL and Run. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain? (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)

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