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.Miriam Makeba
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
Vanessa Williams -
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin -
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.
Madchen Amick -
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
Magic Johnson
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
Cameron Diaz -
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
Gary Busey -
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.
BeBe Winans -
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Cameron Mathison
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
Queen Latifah -
People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.
Larry David -
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
W. Edwards Deming -
In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.
Matt Taibbi -
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.
Alice Ripley -
Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.
Bill Hader
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My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance.
Corbin Bernsen -
Peddling to racism is just as bad as being a racist.
Ana Navarro -
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
Avi -
A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.
Charlotte Lamb -
Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self. It is a harrowing journey, a death to self – the false self – and no one wants to die. But it is the only path to life, to freedom, to peace, to true love. And it begins with silence. We cannot give ourselves in love if we do not know and possess ourselves. This is the great value of silence. It is the pathway to all we truly want.
Basil Pennington -
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.
Miriam Makeba