Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
Belafonte'd take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
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I loved 'Get Out.'
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.
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We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
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The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
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If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
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Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.
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What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory.
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Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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Belafonte'd take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen
