Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
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Broadway is really my life.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.
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In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.
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I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.
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We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
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Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.
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I'm in a place where the audience doesn't have control over my love for the music. In the past I was waiting on the reaction of the fans to tell me whether or not I had a great record based on how they'd respond.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.
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In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
