Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

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• When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Space

• I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Work
  • True
  • Style

• A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Reflection

• Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.' – Sen. Joseph Biden December 31, 2000 on Meet the Press

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Reflection

• The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Safety
  • Drug
  • Reflection

• The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

  

  Richard Marx
  • People
  • Song
  • Feeling

• My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Fun

• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  

  Alfred Loisy
  • God
  • Personality
  • Reflection

• Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.

  

  Mark Frost
  • People
  • Moving
  • Reflection

• Puppies, like all babies, grow up fast. Before long, Gracie was no longer barking at her reflection, instead offering a blase look that seemed to say, 'I know what that is now. I know it's not another dog.'

  

  Patti Davis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Dog

• Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.

  

  David Grann
  • Reflection

• Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

  

  James Stephens
  • Law
  • Reflection
  • Chaos

• For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.

  

  Jodie Evans
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Death

• Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and as society changes, so accents change.

  

  David Crystal
  • Country
  • Society
  • Reflection

• The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

  

  Jim Sensenbrenner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Freedom

• Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Reflection

• Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • Long
  • Success
  • Choices

• My children come first and the career comes in around that.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Children
  • Career
  • Firsts

• If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Career
  • Control
  • Careers

• I don’t know what I’m seeing in his eyes now. Something raw and hungry. Or maybe I’m just seeing a reflection of my own want.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Want
  • Eyes
  • Reflection

• I wash my face with Creme de la Mer cleansing foam. I love Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream - it's got SPF15 in it, which I love - and then I'll use a little eye cream by Sisley, which I'm obsessed with. That's what I generally use every day.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Magic

• I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Music
  • Parents

• Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

  

  Daphne Zuniga
  • Real
  • College
  • Confidence

• I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Reflection
  • Careers
  • Albums