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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Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel
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The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
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Duke is the same way that Harper Row is a character who doesn't want to know who you are beneath the mask, and that makes her interesting. She'll show up and help Batman, but she never wants to know if he's Bruce Wayne.
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I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.
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The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
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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
