Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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We knew we were going to do a fashion line at some point.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
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I am doing it the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it
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: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
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Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
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Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
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Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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A lot of the albums that I've been really into are like, 'Oh man. That doesn't make him look like a perfect human. That actually shows his warts and his scars, and for some reason, I'm super drawn to him now because he shared that or she shared that with me.'
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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I think there's a little bit of a danger of a hype machine that puts forth a whole bunch of experiences that aren't great, and then a whole bunch of audience comes and don't have great experiences.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
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Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.
