Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I love doing every role I do!
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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From a counter-intelligence viewpoint, the OPM breach is really scary - but if we continue to see the erosion of purely commercial enterprises, where people lose confidence, the economy falters.
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Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
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There'll be another resurgence where we get back and play ball well.
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There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.
