Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
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'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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I will be the answerAt the end of the line.I will be there for you,Why take the time?In the burning of uncertainty,I will be your solid ground.I will hold the balanceIf you can't look down.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
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We really shouldn't be putting a label on size. Fashion is for all, and I think confidence and happiness is more important than dress labels.
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Senator Badger did not call. During the whole of the last session of Congress, he did not call on me. He is a bitter partisan and is no doubt sensible that during the presidential canvass of 1844, he did me gross injustice.
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Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work
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My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.
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He's somewhat lewd; but a well-meaning mind;Weeps much; fights little; but is wond'rous kind.
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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I’ve always though of music as a physical thing, but the actual act of creating thick, LOUD and pretty pieces of sound through PA systems really made me lose my shit and realize that there was something pretty amazing about having music completely wash over you and stop you from thinking about anything else.
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If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
