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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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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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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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
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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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If you are a gladiator, a fighter in this sport, in life you can be the same.
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"I wanted to be a director. I had started meeting people with scripts. One of those scripts of mine was very recently destroyed by a dear friend of mine. It was called Veer. Anyway, every place I went to with a script, they’d always tell me I should be an actor. They probably didn’t have faith in me as director. They thought what will this 17-18 year old boy direct? What sensibility will he have?
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I have a very staunch following, and I've had fan clubs all over the world. And these people I term as my cheerleaders - my spark plugs.
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I like to bet on as close to a sure thing as you can find.
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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.
