Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
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My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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I love working with Chanel, and long may it reign, to be honest. I hope it lasts forever.
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Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection.
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We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'
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It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
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The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
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My 20s were a lost decade. I didn't do much of anything.
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If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.
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When I first started, it was so male-heavy, so male-dominated, that on the 18th floor of the criminal courts building, which was where I worked, there were three men's bathrooms and only one women's bathroom.
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Literally everything that could be done with the 'Justice League' has been done with the 'Justice League.'
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Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.
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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
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When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe.
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If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
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O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
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In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
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I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
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There's clearly a Democratic dilemma, ... But while other Democrats are debating how to change the Bush tax cut, we're changing the debate entirely. Instead of just talking about what Bush has done, we are focusing on reforming the income tax system as a whole, ensuring fairness and integrity for middle-class taxpayers.
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In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land.
