Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.
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I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
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No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
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That was a game changer right there, that was a huge difference for us.
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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
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Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.
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It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
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I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.
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African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.
