Tina Knowles Quotes

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Tina Knowles

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : January 4, 1954

When I look at me, I think I'm a good catch. Why wouldn't somebody like me for me? I'm a pleasant person. I'm an intelligent person. I'm a good person. I'm not bad looking. Why wouldn't I be able to get somebody to like me?

Tina Knowles

If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know?

Tina Knowles

In the music business, if you're not a fighter, you will get walked all over.

Tina Knowles

People always accuse us of being overprotective with Beyonce. But I was the mother saying, 'You gonna go hang out? You gonna go to this party?' She was always just so durn easy, so durn mature.

Tina Knowles

I taught my girls to pick up their own suitcases. Pretty is as pretty does.

Tina Knowles

Our lives haven't been picture-perfect.

Tina Knowles

Everybody has their pain.

Tina Knowles

I'm the makeover queen. I love to do makeovers on people.

Tina Knowles

When you get to be a certain age, you want to wear your tops a little longer or pants that are more generous in the back area.

Tina Knowles

When Beyonce began singing in earnest, she was 10 years old.

Tina Knowles

Beyonce has long, muscular legs but is tall, thin, and very curvy, even voluptuous.

Tina Knowles

I grew up with Cher and Motown, beautiful costumes.

Tina Knowles

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

Tina Knowles

Beyonce knows what looks good on her and what doesn't. She likes fitted dresses. They flatter her curvy figure. Baggy tops don't work. But for everyday wear, she really prefers jeans and a fitted jacket.

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Louisiana is a special place in my family's history, and we are committed as a family to never forget the city and the people of Baton Rouge.

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As a designer, I believe in the power of fashion. It has the ability to not only change how you look but also how you feel about yourself.

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When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.

Tina Knowles

The music business inspires designers, and designers inspire the music business.

Tina Knowles

Artists are blessed to travel all over the world. They see the trends before they even come out.

Tina Knowles

Being in the music business, if we couldn't pull the fashions from designers and if designers couldn't use artists to show off their fashions, where would we be?

Tina Knowles