Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
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Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
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The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
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We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.
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Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.
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I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.
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I'm getting older, and it happens. You don't care as much. I don't care about too much anymore. I've got to think about that a little bit.
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Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.
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Every movie that I've done, they don't stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it's part of my own personal growth.
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I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.
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Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.
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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
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There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.
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Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.
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As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.
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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.
