I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

Girls are stronger in numbers. So yes, I believe girls should stick together whenever possible.

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

But a man needs company.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

Constitutionally I don't exist.

Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.