Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
He Belafonte was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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People have always told me I look young for my age... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself.
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The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.
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The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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I live, to get out of what I live through.
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Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.
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I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don't - you lose it.
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Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.
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My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
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Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?
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I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.
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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
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He Belafonte was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.
