Nicole Scherzinger's Quotes

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.

It's important for a woman to feel good in her clothes. It's OK to have curves and to work them.

I've never seen myself as sexy. I see myself as a goofball.

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to earth, simple and a very goofy girl... I like to make goofy faces, be dorky and not take things too seriously. I just love to laugh.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

I can be quite daring with my clothes but I believe that you have to feel comfortable and confident to carry off whatever it is you're wearing.

I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

I love what I do and I strive to be better; that's what keeps me going. I'm never a slacker, always a striver.

I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs!

I think shoulders are sexier than cleavage.

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

I'm definitely not the type to have a sing-off. I'm not catty like that. I sing for the right reasons.

I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood.

It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

My favorite songs are the ones that really come from the heart.

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.

You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.

A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions.

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there.

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort.

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

Where he was, where his cells were, where his logistical channels were, how he communicated. Who his allies were. Who donated to them. I think it's fair to say the entire range of sources were brought to bear.